👉 ATTENTION - VALID FOR MONDAY, APRIL 1st TO WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3rd 👈
Without a surface crust that support a person's weight, consider the snowpack beneath your feet to be unstable.
In the Alpine, the new snow has remained dry, making it available for transport. Be particularly careful near start zones, the top of the couloirs and alpine bowls, under convexities and on cross loaded slopes.
Even if the temperatures fall below 0C, the snowpack will take time to stabilize. This is due to the saturation of the snowpack, i.e. the loss of cohesion between the grains and the percolation of water onto the lower crusts.
No avalanche activity has been observed or reported in the past 24 hours.
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In the alpine, 5 to 10 cm of dry, low-density snow is covering the crust created during the last storm. At and below treeline, the cold nights ahead will cool the top of the snowpack, forming a crust on the surface. As temperatures will approch 0C during the day on Tuesday and Wednesday, a slight change in the forecast could result in the softening of the surface at some elevations.
The rest of the snowpack is generally wet to the ground, which can weaken deeper layers in the snowpack.
Synopsis : Temperatures will oscillate with the freezing point on Tuesday and Wednesday, making snow, and avalanche, conditions variable.
Monday evening and night: Clear sky. Northwest winds from 30 to 40 km/h. Minimum -8C. Freezing level at valley bottom.
Tuesday: Increasing clouds around mid-day. Trace of snow. Northeast winds around 30 km/h. Max 0C. Freezing level at valley bottom.
Wednesday: Cloudy. Trace of snow. Northeast winds from 30 to 40 km/h. Max -1C.
Thursday: Cloudy. Snow beginning late pm. East winds from 65 to 70 km/h. Max. -6C.
For more details, check out the most recent alpine weather forecast.
