2021-03-04T18:10:51+01:00 EN;Avalanche warning centre at the Bavarian State Office for the Environment 2021-03-05T00:00:00+01:00 2021-03-05T23:59:59+01:00 drifting snow drifting snow Fresh snowdrifts at high altitude triggerable 2021-03-05T00:00:00+01:00 2021-03-05T23:59:59+01:00 2 2021-03-05T12:00:00+01:00 2021-03-05T23:59:59+01:00 2 2021-03-05T00:00:00+01:00 2021-03-05T23:59:59+01:00 1600 2 2021-03-05T00:00:00+01:00 2021-03-05T23:59:59+01:00 1600 1 2021-03-05T00:00:00+01:00 2021-03-05T23:59:59+01:00 1600 2 2021-03-05T00:00:00+01:00 2021-03-05T23:59:59+01:00 1600 1 2021-03-05T00:00:00+01:00 2021-03-05T23:59:59+01:00 1600 2 2021-03-05T00:00:00+01:00 2021-03-05T23:59:59+01:00 1600 1 2021-03-05T00:00:00+01:00 2021-03-05T23:59:59+01:00 1600 2 2021-03-05T00:00:00+01:00 2021-03-05T23:59:59+01:00 1600 1 2021-03-05T00:00:00+01:00 2021-03-05T23:59:59+01:00 1600 2 2021-03-05T00:00:00+01:00 2021-03-05T23:59:59+01:00 1600 1 2021-03-05T00:00:00+01:00 2021-03-05T23:59:59+01:00 1600 2 2021-03-05T00:00:00+01:00 2021-03-05T23:59:59+01:00 1600 1 The approaching snowfall will be transported by northwesterly winds, thereby generating fresh snowdrift accumulations. These are deposited atop snowpack surfaces that vary even within a small area: in sun-exposed and wind-exposed locations atop hard and icy wind and melt-freeze crust layers; on shady, wind-protected slopes at high altitude on faceted crystals. There, the snowdrifts are prone to triggering. Below 1600 m the fresh snow bonds well with the moist and compact old snowpack or is deposited on the already bare ground. For the time being the snowdrift accumulations will remain triggerable; in the next few days the avalanche danger will only recede slowly. Please note: ski runs are currently not supervised and not secured from avalanches dangers. Moderate avalanche danger in the Bavarian Alps above 1600 m. Main problem: many fresh packed snowdrift accumulations. A single skier can trigger small slab avalanches in steep terrain adjacent to ridgelines in N/E/S aspects as well as in wind-loaded gullies and bowls. The number of danger zones increases with ascending altitude. Avalanches that are released are mostly too small to be buried; but beware of the danger of taking a fall. A glide snow problem exists at intermediate altitudes in the Allgäu Alps on isolated extremely steep slopes with smooth ground surfaces. Avalanches release in particular in places where glide cracks are visible.