Avalanche forecast

Avalanche forecast

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Avalanche danger

All elevations
2 · Moderate
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Highlights

Caution: moist/wet snow

Avalanche problems

  • Wet snow

    • All elevations

  • Persistent weak layers

    • Above 1,900 m

Avalanche Activity

Caution: moist/wet snow

Slightly rising avalanche danger - wet avalanches due to the rain. On extremely steep slopes, generally small-sized wet loose-snow avalanches are possible. In addition, isolated small-to-medium wet slab avalanches are possible at the foot of rock walls, esp. during the afternoon hours, in starting zones which have not yet discharged. Weak layers in the old snowpack can in isolated cases be triggered by one sole skier. Such danger zones occur on very steep shady slopes and in transitions into gullies and bowls above 1900m, and can reach medium size.

Snowpack Structure

Local rainfall is expected. Nocturnal outgoing longwave radiation is reduced. 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

Uncertain conditions on Wednesday, generally pleasant and some sunshine. In the afternoon, convective cloud build-up. Light to moderate NE winds (40 km/hr). At 1000m: +9 degrees; at 2000m: 0 degrees. Source: GeoSphere

Tendency

Caution: local showers

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