Pongau Grass Mountains

Main danger: wet-snow avalanches

Main danger: wet-snow avalanches

Avalanche danger is MODERATE. Small, isolated medium wet-snow avalanches are possible in the morning hours in steep zones which have not yet discharged. Likelihood of triggering will increase as the day goes on. Heightened activity is expected esp. on shady slopes. Tours should be terminated early in the day.

Friday night, skies will be only partly clear. A melt-freeze crust will form which is often not capable of bearing loads and will swiftly soften in the morning. The snowpack even on north-facing slopes has very few reserves of cold. With higher temperatures, moist air and solar radiation on Saturday, the snowpack will become still wetter, lose more firmness. At intermediate altitudes the old snow is thoroughly wet. Below 1600 m there is little snow on the ground.

On Saturday, good visibility, sunshine, only high-altitude cloudbanks. Light to moderate southerly winds. At 2000 m: 3-8 degrees; at 3000 m: -3 to 0 degrees.

Considerable danger of wet-snow avalanches will continue on Sunday.