Lower Tauern North

Few danger zones. Heed fresh snowdrifts. Avoid transitions into wind-loaded zones

On Wednesday, initially sunny, cloudbanks will soon move in. Light conditions will become diffuse, but the peaks will remain free. Northerly winds in exposed terrain will be blowing at 30 km/hr. At 2000 m: -5 to -2 degrees. On Thursday, again quite sunny. In the afternoon, some harmless convective cloud build-up. Winds will strengthen. At 2000 m: -4 degrees.

No significant change is expected. Steep sunny slopes will moisten on Thursday.

Few danger zones. Heed fresh snowdrifts. Avoid transitions into wind-loaded zones

Avalanche danger is LOW. The snowpack is quite stable. The thin fresh snowdrift patches near ridges are risky mostly for forcing a fall. Old snowpack: only in very few spots can large additional loading trigger a slab. They are found mostly in shallow-snow transitions on shady, extremely steep slopes and in gullies.

There is 10-20 cm of cold powder atop a compact old snowpack. Near ridges the surface is impacted by N/NW winds, but the drifts are not large. Inside the old snowpack are soft layers of faceted crystals, blanketed by hardened crusts and thus, unlikely to trigger.