Villach Alps

Too little snow on the ground for winter sports widespread

Too little snow on the ground for winter sports widespread

Avalanches are hardly possible. Gullies and bowls are unfavorable, where hardened layers lie atop consolidated old snow. Such danger zones occur seldom.

The snowpack is expansively metamorphosed. At all altitudes there is too little snow on the ground for this juncture of the season.

On Sunday, often strong-velocity westerly to southwesterly winds will bring extensive cloudbanks. Sunshine will be only occasional. Windspeeds will lie between 30 and 50 km/hr. Temperatures will rise measurably at all altitudes. At 1000m in the afternoon: +2 degrees; at 2000m: 0 degrees.

Significant increase in avalanche danger levels expected