Fischbach Alps East, Wechsel

Caution: snowdrifts in ridgeline areas

Caution: snowdrifts in ridgeline areas

In the Fischbach and Mürztal Alps, the Wechsel region and the Graz mountains, low danger prevails; above the timberline danger is moderate. Isolated avalanche prone locations are found near ridgelines in all aspects. Particularly needful of attentiveness: snowdrifts behind protruberances in the landscape and laterally wind-loaded gullies and bowls. A slab avalanche can be triggered by large additional loading.

With the radically shifting winds combined with the most recent snowfall (bringing up to 30 cm), snowdrift accumulations have been deposited at high altitudes in all aspects. Weak layers in the form of surface hoar blanketed by fresh snow are not area-wide, occur especially in wind-protected terrain.

The Eastern Alps lie in the range of influence of a NW air current. Along the Northern Alps, heavy cloud will lodge on Saturday; in the southern massifs, conditions will be more favourable. Here there will be no precipitation, and some sunny phases mixed with cloud. A strong NW wind will be blowing. Temperatures will reach -5 degrees at 1500 m; -1 degree at 1000 m. Also on Sunday, the NW weather will continue. In the Styrian rimline ranges, sunny weather will continue. But it will remain cold everywhere, and the NW winds will intensify somewhat.

No change in the current avalanche situation.