Rätikon West

Slightly rising danger due to higher temperatures

Slightly rising danger due to higher temperatures

Due to higher temperatures and solar radiation, slides and increasingly frequent small wet avalanches as well as small-to-medium sized glide-snow avalanches are possible. Caution urged below glide cracks. Isolated triggerings are possible in extremely steep terrain. In high-altittude pass and ridgeline zones, small-area fresh drifts require attentiveness. They are occasionally prone to triggering. The danger of being swept along and forced to take a fall outweighs that of being buried in snow masses. In the Silvretta region, more deeply embedded layers inside the snowpack in rarely-skied terrain on steep shady slopes can in isolated cases be triggered by large additional loading.

The below-average snowpack is well consolidated by and large. In high altitude pass and rigeline zones, small fresh, often trigger-sensitive snowdrift accumulations require attentiveness, esp. on steep shady slopes. Especially on steep slopes these are poorly bonded with the loose old snowpack layers. More deeply embedded layers of the snowpack can be triggered in isolated cases above 2400m by large additional loading, esp. in the Silvretta region. On sunny slopes the most recent snowfall is already moist and is forming a melt-freeze crust. During the daytime hours, this crust softens up again.

Nocturnal skies will be covered with high-altitude clouds. Saturday will have some foehn conditions in the morning hours, mild temperatures. High-altitude clouds will hamper the sunshine, provide diffuse light conditions. At 2000m: -1 to +3 degrees. Light winds from varying directions.

Avalanche danger levels will remain favorable also on Sunday