In the southern Valais as well as in the inneralpine and southern regions of Grisons, there are weak layers evident deeply
embedded inside the snowpack. Although these layers are quite pronounced from place to place, there have been no further avalanches
triggered from them during the last week.
In the remaining regions of Switzerland, the snowpack layering is more favorably structured. Nevertheless, stability tests
have demonstrated that even here in some places, there are fractures in the surface-near layers.
On the northern flank of the Alps more than anywhere else, isolated gliding avalanches continue to be possible in isolated
cases.
In the southern regions there is an unusually small amount of snow on the ground, at numerous measurement stations less than
has ever before been measured at this juncture of the season. As a consequence of the thin, often expansively metamorphosed
(faceted) layers inside the snowpack there is currently a heightened danger of falling into crevices on the glaciers, most
particularly in the regions of Zermatt and Saas Fee.