Lower Tauern North

Loose, cold powder snow

On Friday, peaks often shrouded in clouds, visibility severely reduced due to fog and intermittent snowfall. Winds will be mostly light. Cold. At 2000 m: -13 degrees. Fresh snow during the daytime: 5-10 cm. On Friday night the snowfall will be more intensive.

More fresh snowfall will cause avalanche danger levels to rise.

Loose, cold powder snow

Avalanche danger above 1800 m is MODERATE, below that altitude danger is LOW. The fresh fallen snow is not bonding well with the old snowpack. In steep terrain, isolated small loose-snow avalanches can trigger (by skiers or naturally). Near ridgelines a small slab avalanche is possible which can be triggered even by minimum additional loading. The snowpack layering is unfavourable. Weak layers in the old snowpack can generally be triggered only by large additional loading. Transitions from shallow to deep snow and entries into steep gullies are the most dangerous spots.

Atop a rather shallow, often unfavourably layered old snowpack (ground-level layers are expansively metamorphosed, atop of which are melt-freeze crusts/icy sheets and just beneath the surface hoar is embedded) lies a 10-30 cm loose layer of powder which has not been wind-impacted.