Kreuzeck Group

Isolated danger zones in gullies and bowls

In Upper Carinthia, only occasional minor showers possible. In Lower Carinthia, low-lying clouds can disperse, it will remain free of precipitation. A storm-strength SW wind is blowing over ridgelines and summits. At 2000m: -2 degrees; at 3000m: -3 degrees. Source: GeoSphere Austria

Increasing avalanche danger due to fresh snow and wind

Isolated danger zones in gullies and bowls

Fresh and older snowdrift accumulations are generally small-sized, triggerable only in isolated cases, esp.on wind-protected shady slopes at high altitudes, esp. in transitions into gullies and bowls and at the foot of rocky cliffs and behind protruberances in the landscape. These danger zones occur seldom. Apart from the risks of being buried in snow masses, the danger of being swept along and forced to take a fall require consideration.

Only a small amount of fresh snow was registered. Accompanied by strong to storm-strength SW winds, fresh snowdrifts will accumulate further, the drifts will be deposited atop weak layers. The snowpack is expansively metamorphosed, and is highly diverse even over small areas. There is only little snow on the ground. Below 1600m there is hardly any snow on the ground regionally.