Werdenfels Alps

In the morning heed danger of falling on hard snowpack surface

On slopes that were exposed to sunshine during the day the snowpack will be frozen and capable of bearing loads following a mostly clear Friday night and will only soften slowly during the course of the morning. A cold front from the west will result in a clear drop in temperature and some centimeters of precipitation. Falling as snow at higher altitudes it will be transported by stormy westerly winds. Small-scale snowdrifts will accumulate whose bonding with the snowpack surface deteriorates with ascending altitude. In some places, graupel is embedded. Weak layers embedded close to the old snowpack surface are hard to trigger. Up to high altitudes the old snowpack is completely moist and wet at ground level. There is barely any snow below 1500 m, even in north-facing terrain.

The danger of dry slab avalanches can rise somewhat on Sunday due to new snow and wind.

In the morning heed danger of falling on hard snowpack surface

Above 2200 m avalanche danger rises from low to moderate during the course of the day; for the rest it is low. Main problem: snowdrifts. Avalanche prone locations are found in steep ridgeline terrain in NE/E/S aspects. Here small slab avalanches can be triggered by minimal additional loading such as a single skier. In general the danger of taking a fall outweighs the danger of being buried. On steep smooth grassy-covered slopes. isolated small glide snow avalanches can trigger naturally.