Allgäu Alps West

Attention: fresh snow and snowdrifts prone to triggering

Attention: fresh snow and snowdrifts prone to triggering

The fresh fallen snow and drifts are prone to triggering, one sole skier can trigger small-to-medium sized avalanches. Danger zones are often blanketed, difficult to recognize, they occur in steep ridgeline terrain and in wind-loaded gullies and bowls and tend to increase in frequency with ascending altitude. Whumpf noises and glide cracks when you tread upon the snowpack surface are indicators of possible danger. Also naturally triggered avalanches are possible. Small-to-medium glide-snow avalanches are still possible.

Fresh snow plus N/E winds have generated fresh snowdrift accumulations which often lie deposited atop a soft, at intermediate altitudes atop an encrusted old snowpack surface. Bonding deteriorates with increasing altitude. The old snowpack is thoroughly wet up to high altitudes. The weight of the fresh snow enhances gliding movements over smooth ground.

Rainfall/snowfall will diminish in the evening. During the nighttime hours it will be mostly dry. Residual clouds on Tuesday will disperse through intensifying easterly winds and sunshine will slowly come through. On Arlberg and in Allgau Alps clouds will persist for longer. At 2000m: -7 to -3 degrees. Brisk to strong easterly winds.

Danger of dry-snow avalanches slowly receding. Due to warmth and solar radiation, increasingly frequent slides and loose-snow avalanches possible.