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Caution: weak layers in old snow and freshly generated snowdrifts.

Caution: weak layers in old snow and freshly generated snowdrifts.

Due to light-to-moderate southerly winds, fresh snowdrift accumulations have been generated esp. in ridgeline terrain. The fresh drifts are small but often prone to triggering, esp. a high altitudes, releases can reach medium size, particularly on W/N/E facing slopes and at the foot of rock walls at high altitudes. Due to daytime warming and solar radiation, increasingly frequent generally wet loose-snow avalanches are possible, esp. on extremely steep sunny slopes.

W/N/E facing slopes: in the mid-section of the snowpack are expansively metamorphosed (faceted) weak layers, esp. at high altitudes. Due to southerly winds, small snowdrift accumulations are accumulating. The fresh drifts lie deposited atop soft layers, esp. on shady slopes. Sunny slopes: due to low temperatures and low air moisture, the surface forms a crust during nighttime hours. Sunshine and warmth during daytime hours soften up the snowpack.

On Sunday, sunny weather, only thin cirrus clouds, hampered by dust from the Sahara Desert. In the evening hours, intermediate level clouds will move in from the southwest, moderate SW winds will also arise. At midday at 2000m: +2 degrees. Source: GeoSphere Austria

Regional precipitation, snowfall level at high altitudes