In southern Valais and in the inneralpine and southern regions of Grisons, weak layers exist deep in the snowpack. Last week,
individual large avalanches were triggered in these layers by people, in some cases remotely.
In the other regions the bonding of the snowpack is more favourable. Nonetheless, weak layers that remain prone to triggering
in isolated cases exist here as well, in particular in northern Valais, the western part of the northern flank of the Alps
and northern Ticino. On the northern flank of the Alps in particular, individual gliding avalanches can still occur.
Exceptionally little snow is lying in the south; many measuring stations are recording the lowest ever amounts for this time
of year. In view of the thin and in many cases faceted snowpack, on glaciers there is currently an elevated risk of falling
into a crevasse, especially in the Zermatt and Saas Fee regions.