The avalanche situation is favourable.
The snow drift accumulations of recent days can still be released in isolated cases. In addition, in many places, faceted
soft layers exist in the snowpack in the vicinity of the rain crust that formed at the end of December. However, these are
now prone to triggering only in isolated cases. Otherwise the bonding of the snowpack is mostly favourable in the Jura, on
the northern flank of the Alps and in western Lower Valais. From central Valais through northern Ticino to Grisons, in many
cases the entire snowpack is faceted and interspersed with thin melt-freeze crusts. In very isolated cases, avalanches can
be released in the old snow near the ground on very steep shady slopes.
In the far south, an unbroken thin blanket of snow exists only on north facing slopes.