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Main danger: fresh snowdrifts

Main danger: fresh snowdrifts

As a result of fresh fallen snow and strong-to-stormy SW winds, often trigger-sensitive snowdrift accumulations are being generated during the course of the day in ridgeline terrain, in gullies and bowls and in general above 1800m. These drifts can often be triggered by one sole skier. Releases tend to be small-sized. Apart from the risks of being buried in snow masses, the danger of taking a fall and being swept along also require consideration.

Up to 20 cm of fresh snow is anticipated regionally, locally more. Accompanied by strong to storm-strength SW winds, fresh snowdrifts will accumulate. Shady slopes: the drifts will be deposited atop weak layers. The snowpack is expansively metamorphosed, and is highly diverse even over small areas. There is only little snow on the ground. Below 1600m there is often hardly any snow regionally.

On Sunday, gloomy/gray mountain weather with dense clouds, the summits often hidden in fog. Light snowfall (snowfall level at 1400m) in the morning in the Carnic Alps. A strong-to-stormy SW wind will be blowing with windspeeds reaching 40-70 km/hr. At 2000m: -1 degree. Source: GeoSphere Austria

Fresh snowdrifts demand close attention