Warning level 3 of 5 above the forest border

The risk of avalanches in the Alps has increased. The avalanche warning service Bayern announced on Sunday. For areas above the forest border, the warning level 3 of 5, Which corresponds to a significant danger. Even at lower heights, the avalanche risk is still moderate.

Danger from avalanches in Bavaria: drive snow is the main danger

The main problem represents drive snow, it says in the warning. These are light flakes of fresh snow that accumulate in certain areas and form so -called snowettes through the wind. If the drive snow comes to lying on large layers of coarse -grained snow, the risk of snowboard avalanches is particularly large.

As the avalanche warning service Bavaria underlines, such avalanches can already detach themselves through low additional loads. Steep areas are particularly dangerous in the immediate vicinity of mountain combers with the north, east or south slope.

Climbers should also be careful if they want to pass gently, hollows or areas behind slope edges, into which the wind blows large amounts of snow. The snowboard avalanches could reach medium sizes. A danger was also a danger. Looster -snow avalanches. Locking snow avalanches can also become medium -sized according to the warning.

German weather service warns of snow up to 50 centimeters of snow

General applies: the larger the height, the more danger spots there are, as the avalanche warning service emphasizes. Due to the weather prospects, a rapid all -clear above the forest border cannot be expected. The German Weather Service recently warned of up to 50 centimeters of fresh snow in Staulages near the Alps. The official warnings of level 2 apply until Tuesday morning for the following counties.

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• Garmisch-Partenkirchen
• Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen
• Miesbach
• District and city of Rosenheim
• Traunstein
• Berchtesgadener Land