Weisseck, Muhr Valley

End tours on time!

End tours on time!

The avalanche danger increases from moderate to considerable during the daytime changes below 2500 metres. Spontaneous avalanche activity increases rapidly as the day warms up and the sun shines. Medium and occasionally also large damp and wet loose snow avalanches and snow slabs are to be expected in all aspects below around 2500 metres. Tours in terrain that has not yet been discharged should be ended in good time. Wet avalanches can also be triggered by winter sports enthusiasts. Gliding avalanches are to be expected on typical slopes. In a few places above 2000 m, snow slabs in the persistent weak layer or last week's wind slab can also be triggered, especially on west-, north- and east-facing slopes, as well as south-facing slopes in the high Alps. Avalanche prone locations are difficult to recognise.

In the morning, at low altitudes, there is often a (crumbly) melt-freeze crust on top of this week's new and wind slab snow, which softens quickly. In higher, wind-calm places, there is an average of half a metre of settled new and drift snow, while exposed places are heavily blown and snowdrift accumulations are correspondingly thick. A thin melt-freeze crust from last weekend remains underneath. There are angular shapes and deep rime in the old snowpack on shady slopes. Fractures are most likely to occur within the no longer quite fresh snowdrift accumulations, increasingly also on the uppermost crust, and only rarely in the floating snow close to the ground. Up to high altitudes, longer sunny slopes become moist to wet down to the ground, and the north-facing snow is also moistened on the surface.

It will clear up during the night, but a few clouds may still pass through or fog may linger. On Easter Sunday, the sun will mostly shine, with occasional high clouds across the sky, but these will not impair visibility. Only in the late afternoon and evening will more compact clouds move in from the north-west. The wind will be mostly light from the west. Temperatures will temporarily rise significantly, reaching 4 to 8 degrees at 2000 metres and -1 degree at 3000 metres.

Little change with a weak cold front on Monday.