Berchtesgaden Alps

Snowdrifts up in the mountains, potentially also glide snow or wet loose snow avalanches

Snowdrifts up in the mountains, potentially also glide snow or wet loose snow avalanches

The main problem: snowdrifts Above the timberline they can be triggered in all expositions by minor additional loading. Avalanche prone locations are located in wind-loaded gullies and bowls and behind protuberances, both close to and distant from ridgelines, and tend to increase in frequency and size with ascending altitude. Avalanches attain medium size.Superficial, mostly small wet snow avalanches can be expected to trigger in extremely steep terrain in all aspects at lower altitudes up to intermediate altitudes due to warming. In addition, small to medium-sized glide snow avalanches can release spontaneously on steep grass-covered slopes and in forest clearances at all altitudes and in all aspects. Glide cracks are alarm signals.

By Monday there will be marked warming coming from the west. The night before there will be snowfall with wind impact. During the course of the day the snowfall level will ascend to intermediate altitudes.Superficially the snow is becoming increasingly moist. The packed snowdrift masses of recent days are bonding more and more. In places, there are still trigger-prone layers in places above approximately 1600m adjacent to crusts and at the snowpack base at high altitudes. On grass covered slopes and forests the snowpack is frequently moist to wet at the ground.

The danger of wet loose snow avalanches will increase due to mild temperatures.