Villach Alps

Caution: fresh snowdrift accumulations.

Caution: fresh snowdrift accumulations.

Due to fresh snwofall and moderate velocity winds, snowdrift accumulations which are prone to triggering will be generated particularly in gullies, bowls and behind protruberances in the landscape due to fresh snow and storm-velocity SW winds. The freshly generated drifts can be triggered even by one sole skier. Particularly unfavorable are shady slopes where there are weak layers inside the old snowpack. Releases will be mostly small-sized, medium-sized in isolated cases. Size of danger zones tend to increase with ascending altitude. Caution: be attentive to risks of being swept along and being forced to take a fall.

Some snowfall is expected regionally, which stormy winds will transport, including the old snow. The varied drifts are often poorly bonded with each other and with the snowpack. Drifts lie atop a weak old snowpack above 1800m on shady slopes. The snowpack is highly varied over small areas. There is too little snow on the ground for this juncture of the season.

On Friday morning, the cold front clouds will swiftly reced to the southeast. Directly on the Main Tauern Ridge clouds and fogbanks can reduce visibility, a bit of snowfall is possible. In late afternoon, widespread cloudbanks from the west will move in. At 2000m at midday: -9 degrees; at 3000m: -18 degrees. The initially stormy NW wind, easing off in the afternoon, will intensify the subjective feeling of cold even more. Source: GeoSphere Austria

Caution: fresh snowdrifts