Avalanche bulletin and weather forecast Haute Savoie

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N74300311
SNOW AND AVALANCHE BULLETIN FOR HAUTE SAVOIE
(VALID OFF OF MARKED AND OPEN RUNS)
PREPARED ON SUNDAY MARCH 30
FOR MONDAY MARCH 31

ESTIMATE OF RISK UNTIL MONDAY EVENING:
All massive Haute-Savoie: limited risk (level 2).

WEATHER OVERVIEW UNTIL MONDAY EVENING:
Snow low tonight continuing Monday. Couche planned from 2000 m 10/20 cm.
Temperature to 1500 m -2 to +2 dg.

Isothermal 0 1500 m.
Wind around 2000 m: South 70 km / h decreasing tonight, turning north Monday, 20 kph.
Wind around 4000 m: South decreasing 80, 40 and 20 km / h on Monday.

SNOW CONDITIONS:
Thanks to the recent snowfall, the snow is good (normal or surplus).
The warmth of this weekend at the snow melts at low altitudes but some departures are still skis or snowshoes to toe m since 1200 due north cashed. In south instead of around 1500 m. In the high mountains, big cracks are already open, some snow bridges are beginning to be fragile.
Heights averages around 1500 m: 30 cm to 1m10 following exposure to the sun.

Quality of snow for Monday:
From the snow (not too windy) will be deposited on a snow crust hard or brittle on the average mountain, in the high mountains on a hard surface or compacted powder in protected areas of high winds.

STABILITY OF SNOW COVER:
Thick slabs but very localized.
The link between fresh snow expected in the face of this Sunday should be good in a general way. And the wind weakens significantly during the episode of bad weather to recover in the north-east end of the day. The problems snow on Monday should be limited to a few old structures slabs, but few thick.
We think to take setbacks in the steep approaches passes / ridges, moreover with broken slopes, senior corridors in the guidelines essentially north.

TREND LATER RISK:
Stationary or rising slightly.

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