Lechquellen Mountains

Increasingly favorable conditions - Beware daytime warming

Increasingly favorable conditions - Beware daytime warming

The recent snowdrifts are prone to triggering, one sole skier can trigger small-to-medium sized avalanches. Danger zones occur in steep shady ridgeline terrain and wind-loaded gullies and bowls, they increase with ascending altitude.Due to daytime warming and solar radiation, mostly small loose-snow avalanches are possible esp. on sun-basked and rocky steep slopes. The danger of small, in isolated cases medium-sized glide-snow avalances remains difficult to assess.

Recent fresh fallen 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. On steep shady slopes the uppermost layers of the snowpack are often soft, on sunny slopes already bonded and in the early morning hours capable of bearing loads. The snowpack is throughly wet up to high altitudes but all-in-all well consolidated.

Dry and mostly clear nighttime skies. On Thursday, very sunny mountain weather with little wind, cloudless or little-clouded skies. Temperatures rising higher. Zero-degree level at 2800m. At 2000m: +2 to +5 degrees. Light E/SE winds.

Danger of dry-snow avalanches not expected to change. Due to warmth and solar radiation, increasingly frequent slides and loose-snow avalanches expected.