Nock Mountains

Caution: trigger-sensitive snowdrift accumulations

The NW wind will blow at strong-to-storm strength especially in the early part of the day, and generated fresh avalanche accumulations, deposit them on E/S/W facing slopes often atop soft layers where there are prone to triggering. The fresh snow from last week has settled and consolidated well for the most part. In the Tauern there are isolated weak layers in the snowpack fundament, sometimes melt-freeze crusts, particularly on shady slopes at high altitudes.

On Tuesday, weather in the Nockberge will be quite sunny, clouds will move in only later in the day and it will remain dry. Winds will initially be stormy, then ease. At 1000 m: +2 degrees; at 2000 m: -7 degrees.

On Wednesday, mostly cloudy, strong NW winds, initially no precipitation. No significant change is expected in avalanche danger levels. Caution urged towards small-to-medium avalanches.

Caution: trigger-sensitive snowdrift accumulations

Avalanche danger above 1800 m is MODERATE, below that altitude danger is LOW. Fresh snowdrifts from Friday on E/S/W facing slopes are often prone to triggering, also distant from ridgelines with intensifying winds. Avalanches of small-to-medium size can be triggered even by minimum additional loading on very steep slopes. Danger zones occur esp. near ridgelines, in gullies and bowls and behind abrupt discontinuities in the terrain. They are easily recognized with adequate visibility and should be circumvented. Superficial releases can in isolated cases fracture down to more deeply embedded layers inside the snowpack and grow to larger size, particularly on shady slopes above 2200 m. These danger zones are not visible to the naked eye.