Villach Alps

Favorable avalanche situation

On Friday, still radiantly sunny, often cloudless skies and outstanding visibility. Slight foehn wind influence, southerly winds mostly light (40/60 km/hr in exposed terrain). At midday at 1000m: +13 degrees; at 2000m: +3 degrees; at 3000m: -5 degrees. Source: GeoSphere Austria

Sunny slopes: Due to low temperatures and low air moisture, a surface crust forms during the nocturnal hours. Solar radiation and daytime warmth lead to significantly moister snowpack, esp. on extremely steep slopes. Shady slopes: inside the snowpack are expansively metamorphosed (faceted) weak layers, esp on W/N/E facing slopes above 1800m. The old snowpack is expansively metamorphosed (faceted) on the surface.

Favorable avalanche situation

Due to solar radiation, increasingly frequent generally small-sized wet loose-snow avalanches are anticipated, esp. on extremely steep sunny slopes. Avalanches are triggerable by persons esp. by large addtional loading on NW/N/NE facing slopes above 2000m, releases mostly small.