Villach Alps

Favorable avalanche situation

Favorable avalanche situation

Isolated avalanche prone locations occur on very steep shady slopes and in transitions into gullies and bowls at high altitudes. Avalanches can hardly trigger and releases are small-sized. Due to daytime warming and solar radiation only isolated small wet loose-snow avalanches are possible, esp. on very steep sunny slopes.

Shady slopes: inside the snowpack are expansively metamorphosed (faceted) weak layers. Sunny slopes: Due to low temperatures and low air moisture, a surface crust forms during the nocturnal hours. Sunshine and warmth soften up the snowpack during the daytime hours.

On Sunday, sunny weather, only thin cirrus clouds, hampered by dust from the Sahara Desert. In the evening hours, intermediate level clouds will move in from the southwest, moderate SW winds will also arise. At midday at 2000m: +2 degrees. Source: GeoSphere Austria

Regional precipitation, snowfall level at high altitudes