Allgäu Alps West

In the morning hours favorable conditions. Caution: daytime warming.

In the morning hours favorable conditions. Caution: daytime warming.

Predominantly favorable conditions prevail, with low avalanche danger. Isolated danger zones occur at high altitudes esp. on shady ridgeline steep slopes, they can trigger small slab avalanches in steep shady terrain. Apart from the danger of being buried in snow masses, the risks of being swept along and forced to take a fall require adequate consideration. With rising temperatures and solar radiation, moist slides are increasingly possible.

Fresh snow and drifts of recent days have bonded well with the old snowpack by and large. Above 2300m on shady slopes, isolated near-surface weak layers are evident, prone to triggering. On shady slopes, uppermost layers are often still powdery. At night on sunny slopes and at lower altitudes, a melt-freeze crust forms, which then softens up during the daytime. The below-average old snowpack is well consolidated all in all. With rising temperatures and solar radiation, the snowpack is moistening down to intermediate altitudes, and as it becomes wetter, it becomes weaker.

Thursday will bring brilliant sunshine once again, but with occasionally disturbing southerly foehn winds At 2000m: +4 degrees. Light to brisk southerly winds at high altitudes, strong velocity on foehn-impacted mountains.

Springtime conditions are continuing, with slight daytime rise in avalanche danger levels