Lower Tauern South

Wet snow avalanches detach up to the summit areas

Wet snow avalanches detach up to the summit areas

The avalanche risk is moderate. Wet loose snow and slab avalanches are already possible in the morning on slopes that have not yet been unloaded, with the danger increasing again slightly in the afternoon. This is in those aspects where there is still a lot of snow. Avalanches can occur naturally or be triggered by winter sports. They usually remain medium in size, but with the accumulation of wet snow and tearing through to weak layers close to the ground, large avalanches are conceivable in exceptional cases. Caution should also be exercised in the shallow outlet areas of trenches. Small gliding sluffs are occasionally recorded.

Trigger points for dry old snow avalanches are only present at a few high points in the extended northern sector.

The snowpack cools down poorly overnight, only in some areas a thin melt-freeze crust forms, which softens quickly. Underneath is compact snow, but on shady slopes from around 2200 metres there are still weak layers of deep rime in the old snowpack near the ground. The snowpack will become moist to wet up to high altitudes during the daytime changes at the latest. Low and sunny slopes are snowed out.

In the first half of the night, decreasing, unproductive precipitation (rain up to 2000 metres). Mostly cloudy, with occasional clearing in Pinzgau in the second half of the night. Tomorrow, Wednesday, will bring dry weather with some clouds; visibility will be limited at times in the highest regions. This will slowly improve during the day and the sun will occasionally make an appearance. In the afternoon, a few harmless showers are possible in the Radstädter and Schladminger Tauern (snowfall level around 2300 metres). The wind will blow weakly to moderately from east to south. At 2000 m between 2 and 4 degrees, at 3000 m around -2 degrees. The frost line will rise to 2800 m during the daytime changes.

Progressive soaking of the remaining snowpack.