Nock Mountains

Isolated glide-snow avalanches. Minor snowdrift problem at high altitudes.

Isolated glide-snow avalanches. Minor snowdrift problem at high altitudes.

Avalanche danger is low. Glide-snow avalanches can release in all aspects and altitudes, reach medium size. Above 2200 m, small snowdrift accumlations are prone to triggering. Danger of falling outweighs that of snow masses.

Fresh snowdrifts abobve 2400 m are trigger-prone, lie deposited atop soft layers. During the night a melt-freeze crust forms which is capable of bearing loads, below it are breakable crusts. Firn snow can form during the daytime.

Skies will clear during the night, mostly scattered clouds or cloudless. More clouds will move in during early morning. Winds will slacken off (moderate-to-strong). At 2000 m: 0 degrees; at 3000 m: -7 degrees. Wednesday will be cloudy. In morning the peaks will be in the clear, later on shrouded. Winds will be mostly light to moderate, mostly from the SW. At 2000 m: 1 degree. On Wednesday night, heavily overcast skies, minor precipitation is possible.

As temperatures rise the wet-snow and gliding snow problems will intensify slightly