Lower Tauern South

Wind slabs and stones are the main danger.

It remains cold, the new and wind slab snow is slow to settle.

The coming night will be clear with little wind. On Monday, extensive cloud fields will move across the sky, often shielding the sun. However, the mountains will remain clear. The wind will blow mostly weakly from a predominantly north-westerly direction. It will remain very cold, with temperatures of -13 to -10 degrees at 2000 metres.

Wind slabs and stones are the main danger.

The avalanche danger is low. Above 2200 m, small snow slabs in the wind slab can still be triggered in a few places by a small additional load. Be careful in the area of terrain traps, where enough snow could accumulate to bury people. Drift snow packs are most likely to accumulate behind terrain edges adjacent to the ridgeline and in gullies and bowls. They are sometimes covered by a little soft new fallen snow and are therefore not always easily recognisable. Beware of stones under the thin snow cover, snowpack.

The snow cover, snowpack is highly variable. Fresh and older wind slab snow lies adjacent to the ridgeline on a crusted can form surface. In some places, the wind slab is covered by a few centimetres of very soft new fallen snow. Weak layers are most likely to be found in the wind slab and at the transition to the melt-freeze crust. Below this are layers of faceted crystals and melt-freeze crusts. However, due to the heavily built-up transformed snow cover, the potential for fracture propagation is generally low. On the sunny slopes, the snow cover, snowpack is hard and crusted can form, or the subsoil is only thinly covered. The snow depth is still well below average at all altitudes.