Fresh snow and freshly generated snowdrifts are being deposited atop rough, i.e. favourably structured old snowpack surfaces
in many places.
In Grisons and in the Valais more than anywhere else, weak layers are evident in ground-level old snowpack layers above approximately
2200 to 2400 m in all aspects. However, during the last few days, no dry-snow avalanches have been triggered in these weak
layers. Also stability tests have demonstrated that these layers are no longer likely to fracture or produce fracture propagation.
The snowpack on very steep south-facing slopes up to nearly 2800 m, on east-facing and west-facing slopes up to approximately
2200 m, is thoroughly wet. As a result of the cooler weather and overcast skies, no further process of the snowpack becoming
wetter is taking place, so that only isolated gliding avalanches are still possible.