Lower Tauern Central

Wet avalanches are already expected in the morning.

Wet avalanches are already expected in the morning.

The avalanche danger increases from moderate to considerable during the daytime changes below 2500 metres. Small and medium, damp and wet loose snow avalanches and snow slabs are to be expected in all aspects below around 2500 metres. Wet avalanches can also be triggered by winter sports enthusiasts. A few small gliding avalanches are to be expected on typical slopes. In a few places above 2200 m, snow slabs can also be triggered in persistent weak layers, especially on west-, north- and east-facing slopes, and also on the south side in the high Alps. Avalanche prone locations are difficult to recognise.

The snow on the surface is often sticky to wet from early in the morning, and the snow is also moistened on the north side up to around 2600 metres. Pure sunny slopes are (almost) isothermal up to high altitudes and moist right down to the ground. At high altitudes on shady slopes, the old snowpack contains angular forms and deep rime. Fractures are most likely to occur on one of the uppermost crusts and only rarely in the floating snow close to the ground. In some cases, the snow also glides off the ground.

Clouds are already gathering in the evening. In the second half of the night, low clouds will remain, only clearing up a little in places. On Easter Monday, low residual clouds from the night will persist in the morning; the highest peaks of the Tauern may rise above them. During the daytime changes, the weather will become softer and the sun may appear alongside thin high cloud fields. Temperatures will rise to between 2 and 6 degrees at 2000 metres and around -1 degree at 3000 metres. The wind will blow moderately to briskly from the west.

A spring situation with melt-freeze crust in the morning and firn during the daytime changes. On shady slopes, the persistent weak layer problem remains.