Bregenzerwald Mountains

Favorable conditions. Beware daytime warming.

Favorable conditions. Beware daytime warming.

One sole skier can trigger small-to-medium sized avalanches in the fresh snow and fresh drifts, releases mostly small-sized. Danger zones are often blanketed, difficult to recognize, they occur in steep ridgeline terrain and in wind-loaded gullies and bowls and tend to increase in frequency with ascending altitude. Whumpf noises and glide cracks when you tread upon the snowpack surface are indicators of possible danger. Also naturally triggered avalanches are possible. Small-to-medium glide-snow avalanches are still possible.

Recent fresh fallen snow plus N/E winds have generated fresh snowdrift accumulations which often lie deposited atop a soft, at intermediate altitudes atop an encrusted old snowpack surface. The snowpack is throughly wet up to high altitudes but all-in-all well consolidated. At low altitudes the fresh fallen snow lies on bare ground.

Dry and mostly clear nighttime skies. On Thursday, very sunny mountain weather with little wind, cloudless or little-clouded skies. Temperatures rising higher. Zero-degree level at 2800m. At 2000m: +2 to +5 degrees. Light E/SE winds.

Danger of dry-snow avalanches further receding. Due to warmth and solar radiation, increasingly frequent slides and loose-snow avalanches expected.