Central Grisons and Anterior Rhine
Hard-to-read day. Persistent or gliding-snow problems can mask the real risk.
On wind-protected shady slopes, the fresh snow from the weekend is lying on surface hoar in some places. In addition, the loose fresh snow was transported by strong winds from different directions and snowdrift accumulations have formed that are prone to triggering.
In the inneralpine regions of Valais and Grisons, these layers of fresh and drifted snow are also lying on a weak old snowpack with pronounced weak layers near the ground. Avalanches can sometimes propagate into these deep weak layers or be triggered directly in these layers in isolated cases. In the other regions, there are still weak layers in the near-ground old snowpack in some places on shady slopes. However, the weak layers are mostly so thickly covered here that they are hardly prone to triggering.
The night was partly cloudy. During the day, it was quite sunny in the south and often cloudy in the north.
A few centimetres locally
At midday at 2000 m, around -3 °C in the north and 0 °C in the south
During the night into Tuesday, there will be some precipitation in the east. The snowfall level will be around 1000 m. It will be sunny in all regions during the day.
From Monday afternoon to Tuesday morning above approximately 1500 m:
At midday at 2000 m, between +2 °C in the west and -2 °C in the east
On Wednesday and Thursday, it will be mostly sunny after a clear night. During the night into Wednesday, there will be strong winds from the northeast to southeast at high altitudes. Otherwise, the wind will be mostly moderate from the northeast to east. Around midday on both days, the zero-degree level will be around 2200 m in the north and 1800 m in the south.
The danger of dry avalanches will decrease. With the solar radiation and the daytime warming, the danger of wet avalanches will increase somewhat over the course of the day.
Issued
17 Mar 07:00 UTC
Valid until
17 Mar 16:00 UTC
Next update
17 Mar 16:00 UTC
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