Nock Mountains

Favorable conditions

Favorable conditions

Avalanche danger is low. Due to solar radiation and diffuse light, natural releases (loose dry and loose moist) are to be expected in extremely steep terrain (>40°). Small releases by 1 person are possible. Fresh snowdrift accumulations in high altitude ridgeline terrain are small, can trigger a small slab. Danger of falling outweighs that of snow masses.

Loose snow on the surface can lose bonding through solar radiation, but radiation also helps the snowpack to settle. Blanketed fresh snow or graupel can be a near-surface weak layer. As a result of solar radiation, bonding is generally good. Atop snowy steep rocks and grassy slopes the snowpack is wet at ground level and can glide away. Bonding is generally good, the base is compact.

On Wednesday night, minor snowfall in the Northern Alps, later skies will clear from the northwest. On Thursday, scattered clouds, intermittent sunshine, some peaks can disappear in fog. Winds light to moderate, shifting from northwesterly to southwesterly. At 2000 m: between -8 and -4 degreees.

Due to higher temperatures the snowpack will moisten, the wet-snow problem will increase.