Nock Mountains

Small, spontaneous wet snow avalanches are possible in snowy places

Small, spontaneous wet snow avalanches are possible in snowy places

The avalanche risk is low. The last remnants of snow can spontaneously descend as small wet snow slides. This increases the risk of avalanches in the fall terrain.

There is still a little snow in places at altitude, but most of the terrain is already snowed out. The snow surface is soft from early in the morning.

The cumulus clouds will dissipate during the night to Sunday. In the second half of the night, however, extensive clouds will spread again. On Sunday, too, many clouds will move through with a freshening north-westerly wind. In the morning, it may rain and snow a little at times in the northern Alps. In the afternoon, rain showers, snow showers and thunderstorms in the northern Alps. Around 10 cm of new fallen snow will accumulate at high altitudes by the evening, which will be deposited very differently by the wind. It will cool down in the afternoon, with the temperature dropping from 5 to 1 degree at 2000 metres and around -3 degrees at 3000 metres. The snowfall level will drop from 2200 to around 1800 metres during the day. The wind will be light for the time being, shifting to the north-west and freshening from midday.

Slow reduction in avalanche danger due to melting of the remaining snow.