Villach Alps

Caution: fresh snowdrift accumulations.

Caution: fresh snowdrift accumulations.

Due to fresh snwofall and moderate velocity winds, snowdrift accumulations which are prone to triggering will be generated particularly in gullies, bowls and behind protruberances in the landscape due to fresh snow and storm-velocity SW winds. The freshly generated drifts can be triggered even by one sole skier. Particularly unfavorable are shady slopes where there are weak layers inside the old snowpack. Releases will be mostly small-sized, medium-sized in isolated cases. Size of danger zones tend to increase with ascending altitude. Caution: be attentive to risks of being swept along and being forced to take a fall.

Snowdrift accumulations which are prone to triggering will be generated particularly in gullies, bowls and behind protruberances in the landscape due to fresh snow and increasingly storm-velocity winds. Snowdrifts can be triggered by one single skier. Avalanches can in isolated cases trigger naturally at the foot of rock cliffs and grow to medium size esp in zones where snowfall has been heavy. They can also trigger in the weak layers in isolated cases and grow to medium size. Particularly unfavorable are shady slopes. Size and frequency of danger zones will tend to increase with ascending altitude.

On Thursday, dense clouds all day long, rainfall especially in the morning hours, then also snowfall (snowfall level at 1400-1800m). Moderate to strong velocitdy SW winds, stormier at high altitudes. At 2000m: 0 degrees at midday; at 1000m: 4-7 degrees.

Caution: fresh snowdrifts