Villach Alps

Favorable avalanche situation

Favorable avalanche situation

Quite favorable avalanche conditions prevail in general. Due to solar radiation, isolated moist avalanches can be expected during the course of the day, esp. on extremely steep sunny slopes. On hardened surfaces, acute danger of falls, esp. in the morning hours.

Nocturnal outgoing longwave radiation will be quite good. The snowpack surface will freeze and be capable of bearing loads in early morning, softening subsequently over the course of the day. The old snowpack is moist, particularly on sunny slopes at all altitudes and on shady slopes below 2100m. Inside the old snowpack on N/W/E-facing slopes there are faceted, expansively metamorphosed weak layers, esp. abov 2100m. Below 1600m there is hardly any snow on the ground.

On Friday, often cloudless skies, superb visibility. Later in the day a few thin clouds will move in above summit level. In exposed high-altitude zones, strong, later on storm-strength NW winds will be blowing, gusts reaching 50-80 km/hr. At 2000m: +5 degrees. Source: GeoSource Austria

Little change expected