Bregenzerwald Mountains

Rainfall will increase danger of wet-snow avalanches

Following a night of partly cloudy skies, a compact cloud cover will soon spread out and by midday, rainfall and wind will set in from the north. Starting in late afternoon, only isolated showers are expected. Temperature at 2000m: 3 degrees; at 3000m: -3 degrees. Moderate to strong-velocity westerly-to-northwesterly winds at high altitudes, in high alpine regions storm-strength gusts are anticipated..

Due to reduced nocturnal longwave outgoing radiation on Thursday night, wet-snow problem will predominate already in early morning on Friday.

Rainfall will increase danger of wet-snow avalanches

Following a night of partly cloudy skies, snow is thoroughly wet already in early morning. Rainfall will heighten the likelihood of wet-snow avalanches triggering during the course of the day. Wherever the rainfall is heavy, wet loose-snow slides can sweep along more snow into the plummet path, turning the releases into large-sized ones with long plummet paths, particularly on north-facing slopes where there is a lot of snow on the ground.On steep, smooth-ground slopes with lots of snow which have not yet discharged, glide-snow avalanches can trigger in all aspects.

Due to reduced nocturnal longwave outgoing radiation and ongoing mild temperatures, the snowpack does not freeze at night. During daytime hours, up to 10mm of rainfall is expected in some places.