Avalanche bulletin and weather forecast Haute Savoie

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N74150311
SNOW AND AVALANCHE BULLETIN FOR HAUTE SAVOIE
(VALID OUT OF OPEN AND MARKED RUNS)
PREPARED ON SATURDAY MARCH 15
FOR SUNDAY MARCH 16
ESTIMATE OF RISK UNTIL SUNDAY EVENING:
All massive Haute-Savoie: limited risk (level 2).

WEATHER OVERVIEW UNTIL SUNDAY EVENING:
Snow tonight above 1800 and 1500 m (10 cm at 2000 m, 15 cm at 2500 m). Sunday, a few light early in the day between the clouds and skies of cumulus once loaded into the second part of the morning and afternoon, with frequent snow showers (5 / 10 cm above 2000 m). The wind was blowing from that night.

Isothermal 0 2000 1700 m.
Isothermal -10 GD: down to 3000 m.
Wind at 2000 m: Southwest 40 to 60 km / h.
Wind at 4000 m: West 60 to 80 km / h.

SNOW CONDITIONS:
Low for a mid-March, especially at low altitude. It is fitting the skis from 1200 to 1300 m through North approximately 1800 m in the South.

Quality of snow for Sunday:
There will be a layer of snow above 1600 m, powder or blown, based on a wet snow below 2000 m, a sub-layer in a little crust north. Above 2000 m, this snow will deposit in adrets on a spring snowpack being subjected often crusty, and the northern slopes on an old cold and snow packed.

STABILITY OF SNOW COVER:
Some slabs on the snow

The snow is expected deposit on a rather healthy snowpack still with a few nuances. As these snowfall accompanied by fairly strong winds, a few wind slabs probably will form, so rather localized near the peak or a big break in slope. The passage of a skier could be sufficient in this case to trigger a slab avalanche not very large in general.
On the other hand, below 2300 m, cutting a steep slope that got her going in the sun on Saturday, so rather to East, South and West, a skier could possibly trigger a small avalanche in the snow from doing well underlying wet and covered with snow, rather the morning before the regel gets a little more snowpack in the afternoon.

At the risk of avalanches, it will be low, possibly a small purge in the afternoon in a steep corridor a little more responsible in fresh snow.

TREND LATER RISK:
Continued snowfall Monday, the risk of avalanche is expected to rise a notch.

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