Bregenzerwald Mountains

Wet snow + drifts on shady slopes

Wet snow + drifts on shady slopes

Main danger: sliding away and falling atop hard, smooth surfaces and being swept along by small-sized snowdrift slides, particularly on north-facing slopes. Outside of that, winter sports enthusiasts can trigger small-sized loose-snow avalanches on very steep east-to-south-to-west facing slopes. Small-sized loose-snow avalanches can trigger naturally in steep rocky terrain.

Below 1500m heavy rain, above that altitude appx. 10-15cm of fresh snow from region to region. It will be deposited on a hardly frozen, mostly softened up surface, on shady slopes frequently atop surface hoar or a hardened rain crust. No further triggerings in older weak layers of the snowpack have been registered in recent days at the Avalanche Warning Service.

A cold front will bring heavy cloud until late morning, poor visibility, light snowfall. In afternoon hours clouds will disperse from the west, towards evening skies will clear completely. Temperature at 2000m: -3 degrees; at 3000m: -9 degrees. Moderate southwesterly-to-northwesterly winds at high altitudes.

On Friday no change expected, as the result of an intermediate high-pressure front.