Nock Mountains

Superficial moist loose-snow avalanches in extremely steep terrain

Superficial moist loose-snow avalanches in extremely steep terrain

LOW avalanche danger all day long Main danger: superficial loose-snow avalanches (mostly small) on extremely steep slopes. But the risk of being swept along and falling outweight that of being buried in snow. At high altitudes, there are small snowdrift patches near ridges. Isolated glide-snow avalanches are possible.

The snowpack has a firm melt-freeze crust in early morning which softens during the daytime. On north-facing slopes there is still loose snow. The old snowpack is generally compact, in isolated cases with a brownish layer of Sahara dust at high and high alpine altitudes which constitutes a weak layer, but currently not triggerable or, to be exact, a triggered avalanche cannot fracture down deeper.

On Thursday morning following a night of clear skies, sunny and good visibility. As of midday, convective cloud build-up, irritating E/S winds will arise. At 2000 m: 0 to 3 degrees. Skies on Thursday night will be partially overcast. On Friday, lots of cloud, the high peaks shrouded in fog, some rain/snow showers are possible. At 2000 m: 1-4 degrees. In the afternoon, some irritating SE wind.

On Friday and over the weekend, lots of clouds and rain showers will dominate from the start (wet-snow problem). There is not enough snow for large-sized avalanches.