Lower Tauern South

Avoid zones below glide cracks

Avoid zones below glide cracks

Avalanche danger is moderate. Main problem: still glide-snow avalanches, which can release at any time of day in steep terrain where the ground is smooth (grass, rocks). Avalanches generally remain small-to-medium sized. A few cm of fresh snow and brisk W/SW winds: fresh snowdrifts being generated, can be triggere even by minimum additional loading. Danger zones are near ridgelines in wind-protected terrain, increase with ascending altitude. Hard to recognize due to poor visibility.

Fresh snowdrift accumulations were deposited atop the minor amount of fresh fallen snow from yesterday. Weak layers lurk inside the fresh snow. Elsewhere the snowpack is well consolidated, often with a melt-freeze crust. Due to the warm ground the entire snowpack can glide downhill.

On Thursday, heavy cloud cover from the start, light minor snowfall will later be possible north of the Salzach, snowfall level at 1000 to 1200 m. In the Tauern it will remain dry. Visibility often reduced due to clouds, in the north due to showers. Later on from the northwest, precipitation, intensifying in the evening, extending also to southern mountain ranges. Snowfall level will fluctuate around 1200 m. Westerly winds will be brisk (50 km/hr), intensify to storm strength by evening (100 km/hr). At 2000 m: -4 degrees.

On Friday and Saturday, northerly storm-strength winds, heavy snowfall. Marked rise in avalanche danger.