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Beware wet snow

Beware wet snow

Naturally triggered wet-snow avalanches will increase with the daytime danger cycle. Wet-snow avalanches can be triggered by winter sports enthusiasts and grow to medium size. These avalanche prone locations are located particularly on very steep high-altitude slopes.

Weather conditions are making the snowpack ever wetter, leading to a loss of firmness inside the snowpack, resulting to loss of snowpack firmness. Many starting zones have already completely dishcharged. Nocturnal outgoing longwave radiation hardly exists. The snowpack surface can barely freeze and softens rapidly. The snowpack is thoroughly wet. On steep sunny slopes below 1700m, hardly any snow on the ground.

A southwestern airstream with some cloud accumulations, otherwise high-altitude cirrus clouds, frequent sunshine, summits in the clear. During the daytime hours, convective cloud build-up, with tendency towards showers and thunderstorms. Light W/S high-altitude winds. At 2000m: +7 degrees.Source: GeoSource Austria

Little change in avalanche danger levels