Fischbach Alps East, Wechsel

Low avalanche danger, small older snowdrift patches

Low avalanche danger, small older snowdrift patches

Avalanche danger is generally low. Snowdrifts generated on Friday have formed thin patches which could not settle on shady slopes and in isolated cases are triggerable as small slab avalanches. Danger zones near ridges and behind discontinuities in the terrain.The dangers of falling outweigh those of being buried in snow masses.

Snowdrift accumulations are relatively small, but poorly bonded. Faceted layers and surface hoar clinging to a melt-freeze crust are potential weak layers. The old snowpack beneath them is compact, without marked weak layers. The snowpack surface is melt-freeze encrusted, hard and often icy, but the surface on sunny slopes is soft.

Fine weather is receding. Following a night of clear skies, some sunshine on Monday morning. By midday clouds from an Atlantic cold front will move in, lowering as the day progresses, but it will remaini dry. Precipitation will set in during Monday night, only minor snowfall on the northern flank of the Alps (snowfall level 900 m). At midday +7 degrees at 2000 m, +8 degrees at 1500 m. Winds will shift from southwesterly to westerly, reach 60 km/hr. On Tuesday, minor snowfall on the northern flank of the Alps, clouds dispersing somewhat in the afternoon. On the southern flank of the Alps, the northerly foehn wind will scatter the clouds all day long.

Avalanche danger levels are not expected to change significantly.