In the northern regions, predominantly small-sized (however in some places trigger-sensitive) snowdrift accumulations have
been generated over the last two days as a result of a small amount of fresh snow and winds from varying directions. As a
consequence of fresh snow and easterly to northeasterly winds on Saturday, additional relatively small-sized snowdrift accumulations
will be generated.
From the southern Valais over the northern Ticino and well into the inneralpine regions of Grisons, there are weak layers
evident deeply embedded inside the old snowpack. During the course of the last few days, several large-sized avalanches were
triggered by persons in the deeper layers of the snowpack in these regions. These avalanche prone locations are not detectable.
At high altitudes the snow depths are average over widespread areas for this juncture of the season. Only on the southern
flank of the Alps is there extraordinarly little snow, the snow depths remain far-to-very-far below average.