Totes Gebirge South

Significant avalanche danger in all aspects! Even a single person can trigger a slab avalanche!

Tuesday will be mild and the clouds will soften. The danger level changes little, but naturally triggered avalanches occur more frequently due to the warming.

Significant avalanche danger in all aspects! Even a single person can trigger a slab avalanche!

The avalanche danger is considerable above the tree line (level 3) and moderate below. Fresh snowdrift accumulations in all aspects and in some places down to forest aisles can be triggered as medium slab avalanches in many places behind ridgelines, terrain edges and in gullies and bowls even with a small additional load.

Up to 60 cm of new fallen snow has fallen since Thursday, partly interspersed with graupel. Stormy westerly to north-westerly winds have brought the snow to the eastern sectors on a large scale, but locally all directions and also forest aisles below the tree line can be affected. The fresh wind slab snow may contain weak layers and usually lies on an unstable layer of faceted crystals or surface hoar. In the foundation of the snow cover, kinetic metamorphism (floating snow) weakens the stability.

It will remain mostly clear on Monday night, with clouds gathering from the west in the morning. A warm front will soon bring dense clouds and some snowfall on the northern side of the Alps from midday. The frost will weaken significantly and the snowfall level will rise to 1400 metres by the evening. The temperature will rise from -10 degrees in the morning to -1 degrees in the evening. The wind is still blowing strongly from the north-west.