Current situation and outlook
Looking out of the window, it's easy to see that we (indeed, the entire Alpine region) are in a high-pressure situation. Today, Wednesday, hardly a cloud is likely to spoil the sunbathing or the spring tour. Tomorrow it will slowly become windier and a few clouds will gather before a small disturbance is expected to brush the northern Alps on Friday.
The key pressure structures for our current weather at the moment are a strong high over Central Europe and the constant development of new low pressure over the Atlantic. All attempts by Atlantic disturbances to penetrate towards the Alps are currently still being blocked by the high. Over the next few days, however, the Atlantic will gradually gain influence and the high pressure system will weaken. The first front on Friday will probably be followed by more calm, sunny weather on Saturday, before it becomes more unsettled from Sunday onwards. The further outlook is still rather uncertain, but a new onset of winter is unlikely. Nor is a summer heatwave, so we're preparing for classic April weather.
Firn and wet snow
As long as the nights are clear and the days are sunny, firn tours are recommended. In Tyrol, there have been some impressive wet snow avalanches to admire in the last few days (at a reasonable distance). The avalanche warning service notes that some of the wet snow avalanches tear through to the weak layers close to the ground, others "only" to the weak layers that formed higher up in the snowpack in March. The annoying layers of old snow that have been with us all winter have been and will be "reactivated".
