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Isolated danger zones at high altitudes

Isolated danger zones at high altitudes

Weak layers in the uppermost part of the snowpack can in isolated cases be triggered by one sole skier. Such danger zones occur esp. on steep N/W/E-facing slopes above 2100m. Avalanches can in isolated cases grow to medium size. Due to solar radiation and daytime warmth, increasingly frequent wet-snow avalanches can be expected, especially on extremely steep sunny slopes, releases mostly small-sized. Acute danger of falling on hardened snowpack surfaces in steep terrain.

Clear skies are expected. The snowpack surface will freeze and be capable of bearing loads in early morning, softening subsequently over the course of the day. The old snowpack is moist, particularly on sunny slopes at all altitudes and on shady slopes below 2100m. Inside the old snowpack on N/W/E-facing slopes there are faceted, expansively metamorphosed weak layers, esp. abov 2400m. Below 1800m there is hardly any snow on the ground.

Following a sunny launch to the day, clouds will rapidly move in from the north on Tuesday, sunshine will be diffuse or limited. Higher summmits could disappear in fog, but it will remain dry of precipitation, with more sunshine appearing later in the day. Moderate northerly winds, strong gusts reaching 50 km/hr. Temperatures rising slightly from the west. At 3000m: -11 degrees; at 2000m: -3 degrees; at 1000m: +8 degrees. Source: GeoSource Austria

Little change in avalanche danger levels anticipated