Stub and Gleinalpe

Beware of fresh wind slab!

Beware of fresh wind slab!

The avalanche risk is moderate above the tree line. Fresh snowdrift accumulations can be triggered as small to medium-sized avalanches by individual winter sports enthusiasts in all aspects. The avalanche prone locations are mainly in gullies, bowls and behind terrain edges. Very occasionally, avalanches can also tear through layers close to the ground.

5 to 10 cm of new fallen snow has fallen in the last 48 hours. This was transported by the strong to stormy north-westerly wind. Fresh snowdrift accumulations were often deposited on a sufficiently stable old snowpack above the tree line. Weak layers can be found in the bound layer or in the transition to the persistent weak layer, in some places still in the old snow at higher altitudes.

A weak high-pressure influence will spread, with the clouds already softening in most mountain regions of Styria during the coming night. In the mountains, the afternoon in particular will be very sunny, even cloudless in places. The temperature at an altitude of 2000 metres will be between -9 and -6 degrees. The temperature at an altitude of 1500 metres will be between -6 and 2 degrees. Stormy winds with gusts of around 80 km/h from the north.

The wind slab problem remains. From Sunday, the weather will again be prone to disturbances. The sky will be mostly cloudy or very cloudy. It will snow repeatedly along the northern side of the Alps, but it will remain mostly dry in the peripheral mountains.