Wind Slabs
- Alpin
- Limite forestière
- Sous la limite forestière
- Probabilité
- Possible
- Taille
- 1–1.5
Increasing winds from the southwest on Tuesday should keep this problem on your radar for another day.
Keep an eye out for locally forming wind slabs in the alpine, but otherwise travel is quite efficient on a firm snowpack and little avalanche activity is expected.
Increasing winds from the southwest on Tuesday should keep this problem on your radar for another day.
No new avalanches have been observed in the last few days.
2-5cm of recent snow overlies a melt freeze crust to mountaintop on solar aspects and up to around tree line elsewhere, as well as widespread wind effect from previous strong winds and warm temperatures. A weak layer of surface hoar and facets is down 10-20cm, which is most problematic in areas with wind loading.
Tuesday
Cloudy with sunny periods and isolated flurries.
Precipitation: Trace.
Alpine temperature: High -7 °C.
Ridge wind southwest: 15 km/h gusting to 45 km/h.
Freezing level at valley bottom.
WednesdayCloudy with sunny periods and isolated flurries.
Precipitation: Trace.
Alpine temperature: Low -10 °C, High -8 °C.
Ridge wind west: 15 km/h.
Freezing level at valley bottom.
ThursdayCloudy with sunny periods.
Precipitation: Nil.
Alpine temperature: Low -13 °C, High -8 °C.
Ridge wind southwest: 15 km/h gusting to 40 km/h.
Freezing level at valley bottom.