Mürzsteg Alps

Low avalanche danger - naturally triggered wet-snow/glide-snow avalanches possible

The snowpack fundament is isotherm up to high altitudes and is losing firmness. The melt-freeze encrusted snowpack surface will soften quickly on sunny slopes by midday. The snowpack is bare up to intermediate altitudes.

On Saturday it will remain dry until midday, and quite sunny, accompanied by brisk SW winds, but mild. In afternoon, a marked cold front from the northwest will move in, bringing stormy NW winds, heavy showers and plummeting temperatures at all altitudes. In the evening in the Northern Alps snowfall is possible down to below 1000 m. At 2000 m: +5 degrees at midday, in evening only -5 degrees; at 1500 m: -1 degree.

On Palm Sunday, cold and instable weather conditions. Some sunshine and some snow or graupel showers, with reduced visibility. Snowfall level will rise to 1000 m. All in all by Sunday evening in Upper Styria, up to 15 cm of fresh snow is expected. Inmoring, a moderate, increasingly brisk NW wind will be blowing and it will remain cold. The fresh snowdrifts are prone to triggering, raising avalanche danger levels temporarily.

Low avalanche danger - naturally triggered wet-snow/glide-snow avalanches possible

Avalanche danger is low, but avalanches cannot be excluded from starting zones which have not yet discharged (esp. grass-covered steep terrain in all aspects) and glide-snow avalanches are still possible. Avoid the danger zones: indicated by glide cracks. Wet loose-snow avalanches can trigger naturally in steep rocky terrain.