Lower Tauern South

Fresh wind slab prone to triggering.

Wednesday will often start quite sunny with good visibility. In the afternoon, however, clouds will gradually gather and in the late afternoon and evening it will start to snow lightly in the northern Alps, with up to 10 cm possible. The wind will blow moderately to briskly, in the high alpine areas strongly from the northwest with peaks of 60 to 80 km/h, towards the end of the day over 100 km/h. At 2000 m around -10 degrees, at 3000 m around -16 degrees.

The avalanche danger remains low on Thursday.

Fresh wind slab snow has been deposited on the highly variable and crusted old snowpack since yesterday, more in the north-east than in the south-west. At high altitudes, the connection to the transformed old snow surface is rather poor. In shady slopes at high altitudes, weak layers of faceted crystals have been preserved in the snow cover, mostly in the vicinity of crusts. Due to the overall heavily transformed snow cover, the fracture propagation potential in the persistent weak layer is generally low.

Fresh wind slab prone to triggering.

The avalanche danger is low. With new fallen snow and a stormy wind from the northwest, fresh prone-to-triggering snow packs have been forming since yesterday, which can be triggered by individuals in a few places from around 2200 metres. Enough snow could accumulate in isolated terrain traps to bury people. Take care behind exposed ridges and ridgelines, in gullies and bowls. In shady slopes at high altitudes, there are still very few trigger points in persistent weak layers that are difficult to disturb. The risk of injury from stones is not easily recognisable everywhere.