Central Grisons and Anterior Rhine

Zervreila

Tue 17 Mar Sunrise 07:32 19:31 Light snow

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

Day Risk Profile

Considerable
All day

Avalanche Problems

Dry snow level 3 Wind slab + Persistent weak layers dry All day
All aspects
above 2000m
As a consequence of a strong northwesterly wind, avalanche prone wind slabs formed. The fresh snow and the wind slabs are lying on surface hoar in some places on wind-protected shady slopes. Even single winter sport participants can release avalanches easily. Remotely triggered avalanches are possible. Additionally in some places avalanches can also penetrate near-ground layers of the snowpack and reach large size. Backcountry touring and other off-piste activities call for experience in the assessment of avalanche danger.

Snowpack & Weather

Snowpack

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.

Weather review for Monday

The night was partly cloudy. During the day, it was quite sunny in the south and often cloudy in the north.

Fresh snow

A few centimetres locally

Temperature

At midday at 2000 m, around -3 °C in the north and 0 °C in the south

Wind

  • In the north, mostly moderate from southwest to northwest
  • In the south, increasingly strong northerly wind in the afternoon
Weather forecast to Tuesday

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.

Fresh snow

From Monday afternoon to Tuesday morning above approximately 1500 m:

  • eastern part of the northern flank of the Alps, northern Grisons: around 5 cm
  • elsewhere less or dry

Temperature

At midday at 2000 m, between +2 °C in the west and -2 °C in the east

Wind

  • Moderate to strong northerly wind at high altitudes
  • During the night into Tuesday, strong northerly foehn wind in the Alpine valleys of the south
  • Moderate Bise wind in the Jura
Outlook to Thursday

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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