Lower Tauern South

Up above: fresh snowdrifts. Down below: gliding snow.

Up above: fresh snowdrifts. Down below: gliding snow.

Avalanche danger above 2400 m is MODERATE, below that altitude danger is low. Small-to-medium slabs can be triggered by 1 person on some slopes, esp. NW/N/E facing, above 2400 m. Danger zones increase with ascending altitude. Below 2600 m there is latent danger of glide-snow avalanches, in isolated starting zones they can grow large.

Fresh snowdrifts above 2400 m are trigger-prone, lie deposited atop soft layers. During the night a melt-freeze crust forms which is capable of bearing loads, below it are breakable crusts. Firn snow can form during the daytime.

Skies will clear during the night, mostly scattered clouds or cloudless. More clouds will move in during early morning. Winds will slacken off (moderate-to-strong). At 2000 m: 0 degrees; at 3000 m: -7 degrees. Wednesday will be cloudy. In morning the peaks will be in the clear, later on shrouded. Winds will be mostly light to moderate, mostly from the SW. At 2000 m: 1 degree. On Wednesday night, heavily overcast skies, minor precipitation is possible.

As temperatures rise the wet-snow and gliding snow problems will intensify.