Gotthard area

Maderanertal

Mon 2 Mar Sunrise 08:02 19:11 Overcast

Hard-to-read day. Persistent or gliding-snow problems can mask the real risk.

Day Risk Profile

Moderate
All day

Avalanche Problems

Dry snow level 2 Persistent weak layers dry All day
N, NE, E, W, NW
above 2000m
Winter sport participants can release avalanches in isolated cases. These can be triggered in deep layers and reach dangerously large size. The avalanche prone locations are rather rare but are barely recognisable. Caution is to be exercised in particular in areas where the snow cover is rather shallow, as well as at transitions from a shallow to a deep snowpack, when entering gullies and bowls for example. Backcountry touring and other off-piste activities call for careful route selection.

Snowpack & Weather

Snowpack

North of a line from the Rhone to the Rhine and in the extreme west of Lower Valais, weak layers in the snowpack are mostly thickly covered and can only rarely be triggered by human activity.

South of a line from the Rhône to the Rhine, the persistent weak layers that have persisted since the beginning of January are still present. However, the number of avalanche-prone locations has decreased significantly. Reports of avalanches and alarm signs indicate that the situation in Grisons remains the most precarious.

With moistening of the snowpack on sunny slopes, some moist slab avalanches have been triggered by human activity in the weakly bonded old snow in recent days. This is particularly the case around the treeline in Grisons.

Weather review for Sunday

The night to Sunday was overcast at times with isolated showers in the north. During the day, conditions were mosty cloudy with showers in the south. Otherwise conditions were mostly sunny at high altitudes, though Grisons was often cloudy.

Fresh snow

Above 1800 m, a few centimetres locally

Temperature

At midday at 2000 m, around 0 °C

Wind

Light to moderate from southerly directions

Weather forecast to Monday

The south will be very cloudy, with some precipitation. The snowfall level will be between 1600 and 1800 m. In the north, the night will be mostly clear, with cloudy intervals in Grisons. The daytime will be mostly sunny.

Fresh snow

On the central part of the southern flank of the Alps above 2200 m, 5 to 10 cm

Temperature

At midday at 2000 m, around +1 °C in the north and -2 °C in the south

Wind

Mostly light from southerly directions

Outlook to Wednesday

On Tuesday and Wednesday, mostly clear nights will be followed by sunny daytime conditions and light winds. The zero-degree level will be around 2000 m.

The danger of dry avalanches will continue to decrease, but only slowly in Grisons due to the weak snowpack structure. Each day, the danger of wet avalanches will increase somewhat as the day progresses.

Issued

2 Mar 07:00 UTC

Valid until

2 Mar 16:00 UTC

Next update

2 Mar 16:00 UTC

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