Fischbach Alps East, Wechsel

Low avalanche danger - Small wet-snow avalanche activity on steep slopes

Low avalanche danger - Small wet-snow avalanche activity on steep slopes

Avalanche danger is low. Due to persistent warmth, wet-snow avalanche activity will increase. Small, wet loose-snow and slab avalanches can be expected on steep slopes and in gullies which have not yet discharged. Also gliding over steep grassy slopes will increase. At low and intermediate altitudes there is no longer a cohesive area-wide snowpack.

Due to persistent warmth the snowpack as been moistened up to high altitudes. Also on Sunday the wetness will increase amid diffuse solar radiation and minor rainfall in the late afternoon, before temperatures subsequently drop at high altitudes. On shady slopes the snowpack below the treeline has few reserves of cold and is moist on the surface. At low altitudes there is only a fragmented snowpack and this is losing stability increasingly through wetness.

Sunday will begin with pleasant conditions, sunshine, but clouds will soon increase and veil the peaks in fog by afternoon. Precipitation is expected only in isolated cases towards evening. As winds shift to northwesterly, temperatures will drop from the north. At 2000 m: 2 degrees at midday in the Northern Alps, 5 degrees on the southern flank of the Alps. Monday will being heavily overcast, some rainfall is possible between Dachstein and Hochschwab, above 1400 m a bit of snowfall. Visibility will be poor, the summits often shrouded in fog. Also in southern regions, a bit of rainfall is not to be ruled out. During the daytime, dry weather will take over, the clouds disperse, some sunshine is possible. Brisk NW winds, temporarily colder. At 2000 m in the northern regions: -2 degrees; in the southern regions +1 degree.

The wet-snow problem will temperarily recede at high altitudes due to lower temperatures. Below 1400 m, minor rainfall will lead to further wetness of the snowpack. No significant change in avalanche danger levels is expected.