EAWS

At a meeting in summer 2017, the European avalanche warning services decided on changes to the hazard level matrix and the nomenclature of avalanche sizes.

There is now a wealth of popular scientific works on the internet that are relatively easy to understand. Finding these is usually the greater challenge. A collection that can be expanded at will:

In order to avoid overlapping or merely restating the current situation - which has already been analyzed in detail in the WeatherBlog, in PowderAlert and by the avalanche warning services - we turn to other topics.