Vicentine Prealps

Low avalanche danger will persist. Fresh wind slabs require caution.

Low avalanche danger will persist. Fresh wind slabs require caution.

Winter sport participants can release avalanches only in isolated cases. The fresh wind slabs are mostly small but can be released in isolated cases. They are to be evaluated with care and prudence on very steep shady slopes at elevated altitudes. Caution is to be exercised in particular adjacent to ridgelines. Avalanches can additionally in very isolated cases be released in the weakly bonded old snow at high altitude. These avalanche prone locations are to be found in particular on very steep shady slopes and at transitions from a shallow to a deep snowpack. They are very rare but are difficult to recognise. In many places there is a danger of falling on the hard snow surface.

The snowpack will be in most cases stable. At elevated altitudes mostly small wind slabs formed. In some places new snow and wind slabs are lying on a hard crust. The meteorological conditions will foster a gradual settling of the near-surface layers in all aspects. In very isolated cases weak layers exist in the centre of the snowpack, in particular on steep shady slopes at elevated altitudes. Sunshine and high temperatures will give rise as the day progresses to slight moistening of the snowpack in particular on very steep sunny slopes.