Vicentine Prealps

Wind slabs require caution.

Wind slabs require caution.

Some fresh snow and isolated mostly small wind slabs must be evaluated with care and prudence. Winter sport participants can release avalanches in isolated cases. The avalanche prone locations are to be found in particular adjacent to ridgelines. As a consequence of warming during the day and the solar radiation, the likelihood of moist avalanches being released will increase on extremely steep sunny slopes at elevated altitudes.

In some localities up to 20 cm of snow has fallen above approximately 1800 m. The wind slabs of yesterday are clearly recognisable. The snowpack remains subject to considerable local variations over a wide area. In very isolated cases weak layers exist in the centre of the snowpack, especially on shady slopes above approximately 1900 m, and on sunny slopes at elevated altitudes.