Weisseck, Muhr Valley

Snowdrift accumulations can still be prone to disruption in some cases

On Tuesday, there will still be high cloud along the Tauern mountains, dampening the sun at times. In the morning there will only be a light wind, but during the course of the day winds from the north will pick up in the open high areas, reaching speeds of around 40 km/h. It will remain cold, with temperatures of around -13 degrees Celsius at 2000 metres and -18 degrees Celsius at 3000 metres.

It remains cold, the new and wind slab snow is slow to settle.

Snowdrift accumulations can still be prone to disruption in some cases

The avalanche danger is moderate above 2400 m and low below. Above around 2400 m, mostly small to maximum medium-sized snow slabs can still be triggered in a few places by low additional loads in the wind slab. The frequency and extent of the danger zones increase slightly with altitude. The danger areas are located adjacent to the ridgeline, but also partly distant from ridgelines behind terrain edges and in gullies and bowls. In shady slopes, there are also isolated trigger points for small to medium-sized slab avalanches in persistent weak layers that are difficult to trigger.

The snow cover, snowpack is highly variable and below average. Fresh and older, brittle windslab snow lies on a crusted can form surface. Weak layers are most likely to be found in the wind slab and at the transition to the melt-freeze crust. Below this are layers of faceted crystals and melt-freeze crusts. Due to the heavily built-up transformed snow cover, the fracture propagation potential is generally low. In isolated places, however, a prone-to-triggering combination of weak layer and snow slab cannot be ruled out, especially on the shady slope.