Lower Tauern Central

Avoid small-scale drift snow packs

The sky will clear up on Saturday night, the wind will remain weak. Visibility is good on Saturday. Although some cloud fields will pass through, they will remain above summit level. The sun can often shine through, but the light is mostly diffuse and the sky milky white. The wind blows only weakly from westerly to southerly directions. Temperatures at 2000 m -2 to 1 degree, at 3000 m around -5 degrees.

Little change.

The old snow surface is often loose and angular on the shaded side with a hint of fresh snow on top. In the high altitudes of the Tauern and Northern Alps, there are small-scale drifts on the shaded side, which can be disturbed on the loose base. On the sunny side, the snow cover has settled a long way up and may have hardened in the morning. In the very steep grass mat terrain, the snow cover slides off the ground in places.

Avoid small-scale drift snow packs

The avalanche danger is low. In a few places in the terrain - mainly the Tauern and the high altitudes of the northern Alps are affected - fresh and older drift snow packs can be triggered as small avalanches by individual winter sports enthusiasts. Danger areas are most likely to be found in the extended northern exposures and there behind terrain edges as well as the entrance areas of gullies and hollows. On very steep slopes with exposures from east to south to west, mainly small sliding snow avalanches can also be triggered spontaneously.