Ybbstaler Alpen

Low avalanche danger

Low avalanche danger

The avalanche risk is low. Wet snow slides can occasionally be triggered by people on steep slopes. Small slab avalanches are still possible in persistent weak layers on shady slopes. In general, the risk of falling and injury clearly outweighs the risk of burial. Be careful in partly icy, steep gullies.

The second half of the night is usually clear, so a melt-freeze crust forms, which softens again during the day with the sunlight and the rise in temperature. On shady slopes, the melt-freeze crust can last longer. In gullies and bowls, the wind slab is well stabilised, but in some narrow places it is icy. Faceted crystals are partially weakening the snow base, fundament at higher elevations in the northern sector. There is only a little snow below 1400 metres and below 1600 metres on sunny slopes.

Friday night will be dry. In the first half of the night, the clouds will gradually soften, the second half of the night will be mostly clear. Fog or high fog may form at low altitudes. Friday will bring fairly sunny weather under the influence of intermediate highs. Patches of fog or high fog will clear quickly. During the day, there will only be soft, harmless clouds in the sky and the peaks will remain clear. Temperatures will rise from -2 to +2 degrees at an altitude of 2000 metres. Weak to moderate winds from the south-west with peak wind speeds of between 30 and 40 km/h.

The avalanche danger remains low. Saturday will be foehn and quite sunny. However, the south wind will be strong to stormy at higher altitudes. More clouds will gather on Sunday and it will start to cool down. The coming week will then bring changeable and much cooler weather.