Avalanche forecast

Villach Alps

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Highlights

Beware wet snow

Avalanche problems

  • Wet snow

    • All elevations

  • Wind slab

    • Above 2,000 m

Avalanche Activity

Beware wet snow

On extremely steep slopes, generally small-sized wet loose-snow avalanches can be expected. In addition, during the afternoon hours, mostly small wet slab avalanches are possible. Northerly winds and fresh snowfall will generated mostly small snowdrift accumulations in ridgeline zones, often triggerable by minimum additional loading. Weak layers in the old snowpack can in isolated cases be triggered by one sole skier. Isolated danger zones occur on very steep shady slopes, esp. above 2000m.

Snowpack Structure

Above 2000m another 5-15cm of fresh snowfall is expected. Below 2000m: some rainfall. Nocturnal outgoing longwave radiation is intermittently reduced. The snowpack is moist. The snowpack will soften increasingly during the course of the day. In the middle part of the snowpack on N/W/E facing slopes there are faceted, expansively metamorphosed weak layers evident.

Weather Forecast

Lightly cloudy in early morning, some sunshine, then convective cloud build-up during the course of the day. Isolated thunderstorms are possible. Winds will be mostly light. At 1000m: +11 degrees; at 2000m: 0 degrees. Source: GeoSphere

Tendency

Snowpack becoming thoroughly wet

Bulletin data: Avalanche Warning Service Carinthia, lawinen.report (CC BY 4.0)

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