Regions
Sexten Dolomites, Latemar, Val Müstair Alps, Langtaufers, Schnals Ridge, Southern Stubai Alps, Southern Zillertal Alps and High Tauern, Saldurn-Mastaun Ridge, Texel Mountains, Sarntal Alps, Western Pfunderer Mountains, Maddalene, Eastern Pfunderer Mountains, Durreck Range, Western Rieserferner Mountains, Western Deferegger Alps, Ortler Range, Ulten Valley, Eastern Nonsberger Alps, Northern Dolomites of Fiemme, Gröden Dolomites, Prags Dolomites, Cembra Valley, Western Nonsberg Alps, Fassa Valley, Sole, Pejo and Rabbi
Danger level
Avalanche Problem
Wind-drifted snow above the treeline, N-NE-E-SE-S-SW-W-NW
Wet snow above the treeline, SE-S-SW-W
Wind slabs require caution. The danger of moist avalanches will increase a little during the day.
As a consequence of fresh snow and strong wind the wind slabs will increase in size additionally. Fresh and older wind slabs are in some cases prone to triggering in all aspects above the tree line. The avalanche prone locations are to be found in particular adjacent to ridgelines and in gullies and bowls and on wind-loaded slopes. Single winter sport participants can release avalanches in some places, including medium-sized ones.
As a consequence of warming during the day and the solar radiation, the likelihood of dry and moist avalanches being released will increase in particular on very steep sunny slopes at low and intermediate altitudes.
Avalanches can in very isolated cases be released in the old snowpack, in particular at transitions from a shallow to a deep snowpack. Whumpfing sounds and the formation of shooting cracks when stepping on the snowpack indicate the danger.
Snowpack
dp 6: cold, loose snow and wind
10 to 15 cm of snow, and even more in some localities, will fall until the early morning. The strong wind will transport the fresh and old snow significantly. In some cases the various wind slabs have bonded still only poorly with each other and the old snowpack. The snowpack will be subject to considerable local variations. Large-grained weak layers exist in the old snowpack in particular on steep shady slopes.
Tendency
As a consequence of northerly wind, further wind slabs will form.