Türnitzer Alpen

Low avalanche danger, but avoid fresh pillows of wind drifted snow!

Low avalanche danger, but avoid fresh pillows of wind drifted snow!

The avalanche danger is assessed as "low". Nevertheless, isolated pillows of wind drifted snow can be triggered as small slab avalanches.

Avalanche prone locations are mainly found in gullies, bowls and behind terrain edges down to forest aisles.

As temperatures rise during the day, wet and gliding sluffs are also possible on slopes exposed to the sun.

In the past week, snow has repeatedly fallen in combination with strong to stormy winds. The new fallen snow was transported intensively and formed drift snow packs. Where there is an old snowpack, the drift snow packs are deposited on it and can slide off. In places protected from the wind, there is up to 60 cm of snow in places above around 800 m, which has built up over the last week. Exposed locations, on the other hand, are often heavily blown off.

The sky will remain mostly cloudy, with a few snowflakes falling in the northern congestion. Thick clouds will often prevail over the Lower Austrian mountain peaks on Maundy Thursday and it will occasionally snow lightly over the western peaks. Over the eastern mountain peaks, winds from the north will be stormy in places, but weaker towards the west. Temperatures at 1500 metres will be around -2 °C.

The avalanche danger remains the same.