As the snow cover in the south is rather garbage due to the lack of snow. On the other hand, there is so much snow that you might be able to ski without shark fear for the first time this year.
It has already started to snow and will probably continue to snow until Saturday evening, so it will gradually get better. In the north, it's also fluffing away, so that in some regions, such as Engelberg at the Powderguide Meeting, it could be enough for alert amounts.
The period is long, the situation is complex and the oracle is sweating blood and water, as it doesn't really want to pack such uncertainties into an alert, but since there is no break in the snowfall, two alerts would also be quite pointless. So we have to hope that the oracle's crystal ball isn't too foggy.
But to paraphrase the current US administration: "Some of you may have to suffer, but those are sacrifices I'm willing to make" ;)
Alert period and areas
It's snowing all around the alert boundaries or beyond, from France in the southwest to the Maritime Alps and from the Simplon to Slovenia in the south. The exception in the south is the south-west protected areas of Piedmont. Probably also in parts of northern and eastern Switzerland in the north. In the north of Austria it will also some white stuff, but theoretically no alarm amounts.
The alert will last until Saturday evening. Then everything should have happened.
The core goes from eastern Ticino to the border triangle IT/AT/SLO, where, as always with the southwest, there could be extra.
