As a result of fresh snow and winds, snowdrift accumulations are increasing significantly at heightened altitudes.
Beneath the freshly generated drifts, the snowpack on east-facing, south-facing and west-facing slopes is thoroughly wet below
approximately 3000 m. On north-facing slopes the snowpack between 2200 m and 2400 m became thoroughly moist for the first
time during the last few days, and was thereby weakened. In particular in Grisons, where the snowpack evidences marked weak
layers, even large-sized slab avalanches have been observed in this altitude band.