Bregenzerwald Mountains

Moderate avalanche danger at higher altitudes

Moderate avalanche danger at higher altitudes

Avalanche danger is low. Isolated avalanche prone locations occur on extremely steep, mostly shady slopes. Small-sized avalanches can in isolated cases be triggered even by minimum additional loading. Danger zones occur most often in transition zones from shallow to deep snow, for example, at entry points into gullies and bowls. Apart from the risks of being buried in snow masses, the danger of being swept along and forced to take a fall also require caution.

The old snowpack is predominantly well consolidated. On shady slopes, weak layers in the old snow still persist in places. Due to mild temperatures, the snow at low and intermediate altitudes is moist and the snowpack surface melt-freeze encrusted in early morning. At low altitudes there is little snow on the ground.

Southerly winds will intensify in the mountains. High-altitude cloudbanks, at times compact, will join the sun. However, the weather will remain dry, generally pleasant. At 2000m: -2 degrees; at 3000m: -7 degrees. Moderate to strong velocity southerly winds at high altitudes.

In spite of some snowfall on Saturday, avalanche danger levels are not expected to change significantly.