Lower Tauern South

Wet snow is the main problem

Wet snow is the main problem

The avalanche risk is moderate. Wet loose snow and slab avalanches are already possible in the morning on slopes that have not yet been discharged in all aspects and altitudes. The avalanches can occur spontaneously or be triggered by winter sports. They usually remain medium in size, but with the accumulation of wet snow and tearing through to weak layers close to the ground, large avalanches are conceivable in exceptional cases.

In a few places above 2200 m in the extended northern sector, weak layers directly in the persistent weak layer can be disturbed by individuals and lead to medium-sized slab avalanches.

The snowpack has difficulty cooling down overnight and a thin melt-freeze crust softens early in the morning. Underneath is well-settled snow from the last periods of precipitation. On shady slopes from around 2200 metres, there are still prone to triggering weak layers of angular forms and deep rime in the old snowpack close to the ground. The snowpack becomes moist to wet up to high altitudes during daytime changes at the latest. Low altitudes are snowed out.

Sunday night will be cloudy to very cloudy, but mostly dry. Temperatures at 2000 m around +5 degrees, at 3000 m around -3 degrees. Tomorrow, Sunday, sun and clouds will alternate, so visibility will vary. In the afternoon, some additional spring clouds will appear, which may temporarily shroud higher peaks in fog. As a result, one or two showers cannot be completely ruled out, in particular in the northern Alps (snowfall level around 2800 metres). At high altitudes in the Tauern, there will be a brisk southerly wind at times during the day. Temperatures at 2000 m between 6 and 11 degrees, at 3000 m between -1 and +1 degree. The frost line will rise to 3000 metres. There will be Sahara dust in the air.

The wet snow problem remains.