Stub and Gleinalpe

Cold fresh snow

Cold fresh snow

Avalanche danger below the treeline is low, danger is moderate above that altitude. Fresh snowfall from the weekend plus strong winds have generated new snowdrift accumulations. Danger zones occur mostly on E/SW facing steep slopes, where medium-sized slab avalanches can be triggered even by minimum additional loading, e.g. one sole skier. As SE winds arise, fresh snowdrift accumulations will be deposited on north facing slopes - they are triggerable.

From Turracher Höhe to Koralpe, 20-35 cm of fresh snow has been registered. Due to dropping temperatures on Saturday, a melt-freeze crust formed at intermediate and high altitudes, atop of which the fresh snow was deposited. Bonding of the cold new snow to the warmer melt-freeze crust beneath it is insufficient.

South of the Niedere Tauern and along the Styrian rimline ranges, tenacious clouds and fog, dispersing only slowly. Winds will be moderate from the northeast. Temperatures only slightly higher. At 2000 m: -6 degrees.

Weather on Wednesday: in the Northern Alps, light southerly winds, sunshine, good mountain weather. On the southern flank of the Tauern and along the rimline ranges, fog and clouds will persist, plus moderate southerly winds, slightly higher temperatures. At 2000 m: -5 degrees on Zirbitzkogel, -2 degrees on Grimming. Avalanche danger will recede.