Nock Mountains

Injury from stones and falling are the main dangers.

Injury from stones and falling are the main dangers.

The avalanche danger is low. Only very rarely can drift snow packs be triggered by individuals in shady slopes, avalanches remain small. In areas adjacent to the ridgeline, crests or summits, there are isolated trigger points for mainly small avalanches that are difficult to disturb, even in persistent weak layers.

The snow depth is well below average for the time of year, low to medium elevations and the sunny slopes are widely covered in snow. The snow cover, snowpack is soaked up to high altitudes on the sunny slopes during daytime changes and often remains frozen hard in the shade. At high altitudes on the shady slopes, weak layers of faceted crystals still remain in the snow cover, mostly in the vicinity of crusts.

The mostly sunny mountain weather with good visibility will continue on Sunday. High and medium-high cloud fields will pass over the peaks at times. The wind will blow weakly to moderately from the south, along the Tauern and on the peaks of the northern Alps also briskly (peaks around 50 to 60 km/h). Temperatures at 2000 metres will be around 5 degrees, at 3000 metres around -2 degrees.

The avalanche danger remains low.