Lower Tauern Central

Avoid fresh drifts and glide cracks

Avoid fresh drifts and glide cracks

Gliding snow activity will remain upright. Danger zones occur in all aspects up to 2400 m. Glide-snow avalanches can trigger anytime on steep grassy slopes and smooth rocky ground, and reach medium size. Avoid zones below glide cracks. Fresh snowdrifts are accumulating, trigger-sensitive above 2000 m, difficult to recognize on Monday. Danger zones occur esp. on NW/N/SE facing slopes, increase with ascending altitude, releases can reach medium size. Due to rain impact and mild temperatures, small wet-snow avalanches are possible on extremely steep slopes at low and intermediate altitudes.

On smooth ground (grass, rocks) which are steep enough, the entire snowpack can glide. Fresh snowdrift accumulations esp on shady high altitude slopes lie atop a loose snowpack and are prone to triggering there.

On Monday, visibility initially reduced due to fog and precipitation. Snowfall level at 1500 m, heavy showers will bring 10-20 cm of fresh snow at high altitudes by noon. Towards the end of this bout of precipitation, winds will slacken off, be blowing mostly at moderate strength from the west. In the afternoon, dry weather conditions. At 2000 m: -5 to 0 degrees; at 1000 m, 0 to +4 degrees.

Avalanche danger will not change.