Villach Alps

Caution: fresh snowdrift accumulations.

Caution: fresh snowdrift accumulations.

Due to fresh snwofall and moderate velocity winds, snowdrift accumulations which are prone to triggering have been generated particularly in gullies, bowls and behind protruberances in the landscape due to fresh snow and storm-velocity SW winds. The freshly generated drifts can be triggered even by one sole skier. Particularly unfavorable are shady slopes where there are weak layers inside the old snowpack. Releases will be mostly small-sized, medium-sized in isolated cases. Size of danger zones tend to increase with ascending altitude. Caution: be attentive to risks of being swept along and being forced to take a fall.

Up to 15 cm of fresh snow was registered regionally, locally more. Often moderate winds transported the fresh fallen snow. The fresh snowdrift accumulations were deposited atop a weak old snowpack surface above 1800m. on shady slopes. Further snowdrifts will accumulate during the course of the day. The snowpack is highly diverse even over small areas.

Tuesday will bring a low-pressure front from Italy and often heavy snowfall. Initially the snowfall level will be at 1500m, with wet snow; then in afternoon, colder air masses will arrive and the snowfall level will drop to beneath 1000m. Visibility will be starkly reduced by fog. Winds will shift to northerly as precipitation falls, reach windspeeds of 40 km/hr. Temperatures will drop. At 2000m: -4 degrees in the evening. Further weather forecasts are as yet uncertain, particularly the snowfall level.

Caution: fresh snowdrifts