Lower Tauern South

Wet snow is the main problem

Wet snow is the main problem

The avalanche risk is moderate. Wet loose snow and slab avalanches are already possible in the morning on slopes that have not yet been discharged in all aspects and altitudes. The avalanches can occur spontaneously or be triggered by winter sports. They usually remain medium in size, but with the accumulation of wet snow and tearing through to weak layers close to the ground, large avalanches are conceivable in exceptional cases. Caution should also be exercised in the apery outlets of trenches. There are isolated signs of sliding snow activity.

In a few places above 2200 m in the extended northern sector, weak layers directly in the persistent weak layer can still be disturbed by individuals and lead to medium-sized slab avalanches.

It is only slightly colder than before. Despite this, the snowpack has difficulty cooling down overnight and is already softened in the morning. Underneath is well-settled snow from the last periods of precipitation. On shady slopes above around 2200 metres, there are still prone to triggering weak layers of angular forms and deep rime in the old snowpack close to the ground. The snowpack becomes moist to wet up to high altitudes during daytime changes at the latest. Low and sunny slopes are snowed out.

During the night, dense clouds will move through again and again. Temperatures at 2000 m around +4 degrees, at 3000 m around -3 degrees. Tomorrow, Monday, dense clouds will build up from the south and visibility will be very limited in the Nockberge mountains. Further north, too, denser clouds will continue to move through, but the sun will also appear from time to time. In the afternoon, spring clouds may bring scattered showers. Strong to stormy southerly winds at high altitudes. Temperatures at 2000 m: 4 to 9 degrees, at 3000 m -3 to 0 degrees. Sahara dust will also be in the air again.

In the course of Tuesday night, the Föhn will break down, followed by light precipitation with a snowfall level of around 2200 metres. Rain and reduced outgoing longwave radiation at night weaken the snowpack.