Hohgant

TrendMonday and Tuesday

Monday will be sunny, Tuesday will also be mostly sunny despite some high cloud cover. There will also be a mostly weak wind and it will be very mild. The zero-degree level will be around 3200 m on Monday and 2800 m on Tuesday.

The danger of dry avalanches will continue to decrease. As a result of solar radiation and the mild temperatures, wet avalanches are possible, especially on sunny slopes. Gliding avalanches are still to be expected in all aspects.

Snowpack

The snowpack is increasingly stabilising owing to mild temperatures. Fresh and older snowdrift accumulations are still somewhat prone to triggering. In addition, the snow that has fallen over the past 10 days or so is lying on angular weak layers in places. In some cases, avalanches, possibly large ones, can occur in these old snowpack layers. On Friday and Saturday, some avalanches were triggered above 2600 m in northern Grisons and northern Lower Engadine, presumably in these layers. There are hardly any weak layers in the lower part of the snowpack that are prone to triggering.

Below approximately 2500 m, gliding avalanches are still expected at any time of day in all regions except on the southern flank of the Alps, with large gliding avalanches expected in regions with a lot of snow. Furthermore, the danger of moist avalanches is rising owing to warming during the day and solar radiation on sunny slopes.

Weather forecast until Sunday, 28.01.2024

After a partly clear night, it will be sunny during the day.

New snow

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Temperature

At midday at 2000 m, between +6 °C in the north and +3 °C in the south.

Wind

There will be a weak westerly to northwesterly wind.

Weather review for Saturday, 27.01.2024

There was widespread precipitation in the north during the first half of the night. The snowfall level fell from around 2000 m to 1500 m. It then cleared rapidly and it was sunny during the day.

New snow

From Friday afternoon to Saturday morning, the following amounts of fresh snow were recorded above approximately 2200 m:

• Northern Alpine Ridge from the Lötschental to the Alpstein, northern Grisons: 10 to 15 cm, locally up to 20 cm;
• less elsewhere, dry in the south.

Temperature

At midday at 2000 m, between +4 °C in the west and south and 0 °C in the east.

Wind

There were moderate to strong northwesterly winds during the night. These eased during the day.