Lower Tauern South

Wet avalanches are already expected in the morning.

Wet avalanches are already expected in the morning.

The avalanche risk is moderate. Small and medium-sized wet loose snow avalanches and snow slabs can be expected in all aspects, especially in the morning rain or afternoon sunshine. Wet avalanches can also be triggered by winter sports enthusiasts. Small gliding avalanches are to be expected on typical slopes. In a few places above 2200 metres, snow slabs can also be triggered in the extended northern sector in weak persistent weak layers.

The snow on the surface is often sticky to wet from early in the morning. Pure sunny slopes are (almost) isothermal up to high altitudes and moist right down to the ground. At high altitudes on shady slopes, the old snowpack has angular shapes and deep rime. Breakage or sliding of the snow is most likely to occur on one of the uppermost crusts and only rarely in the floating snow close to the ground. In a few places, the snow also glides off the ground.

Clouds will gather in the evening, with some rain or snow above around 2000 metres, especially in the northern Alps. In the second half of the night, low clouds will remain and it will only clear up a little in places. On Easter Monday, low residual clouds from the night will persist in the morning. In the northern Alps, there will still be light rain showers in the morning, further south it will become softer and softer during the daytime changes and the sun may appear alongside thin high cloud fields. In the north, the clouds will be denser, but here too the sun should break through more often by the afternoon at the latest. The wind will blow moderately to briskly from the west. Temperatures will rise to between 2 and 6 degrees at 2000 metres and around -2 degrees at 3000 metres.

It's a classic spring situation with melt-freeze crust and firn.