Avalanche situation favourable.
Snowpack layering in the Jura region, on the northern flank of the Alps and in the western Lower Valais is predominantly favourable. In many places, faceted soft layers are evident in the snowpack near the rain crust which formed at the end of December. However, these layers are currently hardly prone to triggering.
From the central part of the Valais over the northern part of Ticino as far as Grisons, the entire snowpack is often expansively metamorphosed (faceted) and riddled with thin melt-freeze crusts. In increasingly frequent cases you sink down to the ground on your skis. In isolated cases, particularly on very steep shady slopes in these regions, avalanches can be triggered in the old snow at ground-level.
The snowpack surfaces on north-facing slopes are frequently loose and expansively metamorphosed (faceted). Steep south-facing slopes are encrusted and tend to turn to corn snow during the course of the day. At high altitudes, as well as in general in ridgeline and pass areas, the snowpack surface is frequently marked by the effects of northerly winds.
In the furthermost southern regions, a continuous area-wide thin snowpack still exists only on north-facing slopes.

Following a night of clear skies it was sunny in the mountains during the daytime.

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At midday at 2000 m, between +3 °C in the western and the southern regions and 0 °C in the eastern regions.

Winds were blowing at light to moderate strength from northerly to northwesterly directions, intermittently at strong velocity at high altitudes.

Following a night of clear skies it will be sunny during the daytime.

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At midday at 2000 m, between +3 °C in the western and the southern regions and +1 °C in the eastern regions.

Winds will be blowing predominantly at light strength, at moderate strength at high altitudes, from westerly to northwesterly directions.