Lower Tauern Central

Avoid small-scale drift snow packs

Avoid small-scale drift snow packs

The avalanche danger is low. At a few danger spots in the terrain, fresh and older drift snow packs can be triggered by individual winter sports enthusiasts. There are local danger spots particularly in the Tauern and the high altitudes of the northern Alps. Danger areas are most likely to be found in the extended northern exposures and there behind terrain edges as well as the entrance areas of gullies and hollows. The slab avalanches usually remain small. In addition, there is still a problem with sliding snow on slopes with exposures from east to south to west. Small sliding snow avalanches may still spontaneously release up to the summits.

A few centimetres of fresh snow will fall overnight and on Friday with little wind influence. The old snow surface is often loose and angular on the shaded side. In the high altitudes of the Tauern and Northern Alps, there are also small-scale drifts on the shaded side, which can be disturbed on the loose base. On the sunny side, the snow cover has settled a long way up and may have hardened in the morning. In the very steep grass mat terrain, the snow cover slides off the ground in places.

Friday night will be overcast and precipitation will move in from the south around midnight. The intensity will be low, with a maximum of 5 cm of fresh snow falling at higher altitudes and occasional light snowfall in the valleys. On Friday, visibility will often be limited by dense clouds and a few snowflakes may still fall in the morning. The clouds will break up more frequently in the afternoon. Weak to moderate winds from south to west (gusts up to 30 km/h). Temperatures at 2000 m around -5 degrees, at 3000 m around -9 degrees.

Little change.