Nock Mountains

Injury from stones and falling are the main dangers.

Injury from stones and falling are the main dangers.

The avalanche danger is low. Small sliding snow avalanches can spontaneously release from the north-facing slopes that have not yet been discharged. In shady high altitudes, there are still isolated spots in the old snow that are difficult to trigger for small slab avalanches, especially in gullies and hollows close to the crest. Overall, however, the risk of injury from terrain traps and stones predominates.

The snow depth is well below average for the time of year, with low elevations and the sunny side of the valley being widely bare. The snowpack is moist or even wet on the sunny side up to high altitudes. At high altitudes on the shady side, there are still isolated weak layers of angular crystals in the snowpack, mostly in the vicinity of crusts. The transport potential is low.

On Wednesday, extensive cloud fields will ensure diffuse visibility, and even higher altitudes will often be covered in fog. Light precipitation will spread from the south from midday, with the snow line around 1600 metres. It may snow about 2 cm in Lungau, with hardly any precipitation in the north of the country. The wind will blow mostly weakly from the south. Temperatures at 2000 m around 0 degrees.

It will remain dry on Thursday and moderate to brisk southerly winds will set in again.