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PowderAlert 12 2018/19 | The alpine touring season is over!

The May holidays come to an end and with the arrival of March finally comes snow again!

by Lars Oelmann • 03/06/2019
It's done. After a few small snowfalls over the last few days, none of which exceeded 30 cm, there is now finally some more snow in alarming quantities. Unfortunately only on a very small scale, but the medium term gives hope! Ullr seems to be back from his work abroad in California and is finally making us happy again with fresh snow. You can find more detailed information on the medium-term situation below.

Alert areas and period

This alert lasts until Friday morning and essentially only affects the area from Monte Rosa to the Upper Engadine, although further east, alert amounts may also be reached. The rest looks rather gloomy or merely cosmetic.

Wind

It's whistling around quite a bit. The oracle was almost blown away with the motorhome on the way back from the climbing trip, but it wasn't as blatant as in the last few days in the foehn storm. In the south, it tends to get very stormy at the top, on the main ridge and further down in the north.

Snow line

Lies between 1400 and 1900m in the southern foothills of the Alps. Inner Alps on the Simplon or in northern Ticino also up to 1000m, depending on the strength of the dump. However, there is probably only powder from 1600-2000m.

The amounts

About 30-60 cm of snow falls from Monte Rosa to the Upper Engadine, with the core probably lying between Simplon and western Ticino. From the Upper Engadine to Slovenia, we are scraping along the alarm limit of 20-30 cm, but there may also be up to 40 cm of fresh snow here. Otherwise, and especially in the north, there's nothing, or even just a foehn storm. But that's what we have the medium term for.

Where should I go?

Tomorrow - Thursday - to the area in the south where there is still a base in the trees, if there is one (was there ever one this season?), then on Friday you can go above the tree line. From Saturday onwards, it should also be sunny and you can still go touring in the south.

Mid-term

Finally, it's not just sand in the crystal ball and you can swap the steep face slats for powder boards again. Ullr is back, as teased above, and brings us an exciting student and privateer week (privateer, a much better term than millionaire, because privateers are rich AND don't work!). For everyone else: If you still want to take a vacation: It looks like there will be more alarms from March 11-15.

Powder to the people!

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