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Beware trigger-sensitive fresh fallen snow at high altitudes

Beware trigger-sensitive fresh fallen snow at high altitudes

The large amounts of fresh fallen snow and widespread snowdrift accumulations can easily be triggered above 2200m or else trigger naturally. Avalanches can fracture to lower layers and sweep them away, thereby grow to large size, which increases the runout zones. Due to solar radiation, increasingly frequent loose-snow avalanches can be expected during the course of the day, mostly small releases.

Since Saturday, 30-40cm of fresh snow has been registered. The fresh fallen snow is prone to triggering. In the lowermost part of the snowpack on N/W/E-facing slopes there are faceted, expansively metamorphosed weak layers evident. Below 1700m: rainfall has made the snowpack thoroughly wet over far-reaching areas.

On Monday, storm-strength northerly winds will bring a brief spell of sunny and dry weather, but during the course of the day summits will be covered in clouds and isolated short snow-and-graupel showers can be expected. At 2000m: -4 degrees; at 3000m: -13 degrees. Source: GeoSource Austria

Unchanged avalanche danger levels