Snowdrift accumulations generated over the last few days lie deposited on north-facing slopes atop expansively metamorphosed (faceted) old snow and are prone to triggering in some places. The snowpack surface is coloured brown from the deposited Sahara dust over widespread areas. Thereby, a smaller degree of solar radiation is reflected, which leads to a heightened degree of warmth in the snowpack. Due to this warming over the last two days, numerous superficial avalanches were released naturally. In the regions of the north where snowfall has been heaviest, increasingly frequent gliding avalanches have been observed.
More deeply embedded inside the snowpack in the southern Valais and in the inneralpine and southern regions of Grisons more than anywhere else, there are pronounced weak layer evident. However, since the end of February, no fractures of dry-snow avalanches have been recorded as triggering in these layers. As a consequence of the beginning moistening-of-the-snowpack, fractures in these weak layers will once again become possible.

During the night of partly overcast skies, the snowpack was able to cool only to a small degree on the northern flank of the Alps. During the daytime the solar radiation was significantly reduced due to high-altitude cloud cover and Sahara dust. Most of the sunshine was registered in the eastern and the southern regions.

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At midday at 2000 m, between a mild +8 °C in the western regions and +5 °C in the eastern regions.

• Winds during the night on the northern Alpine Ridge and in the Jura region were blowing at moderate to strong velocity from southwesterly directions;
• in the other regions of Switzerland, winds were light to moderate, blowing from westerly directions.
  

Following a night of partly clear skies, it will be quite sunny during the daytime hours, in spite of high-altitude cloudbanks, but light conditions will be diffuse as a consequence of Sahara dust. The zero-degree level will be at approximately 3000 m, exceedingly mild.

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At midday at 2000 m, between +5 °C in the northern regions and +2 °C in the southern regions.

Winds will be blowing predominantly at light strength from easterly directions.