Avalanche forecast

Avalanche forecast

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Avalanche danger

Above 1,900 m
2 · Moderate
Below 1,900 m
1 · Low
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Highlights

Rising danger of moist/wet avalanches due to rainfall. Attention: weak layers in old snow.

Avalanche problems

  • Persistent weak layers

    • Above 1,900 m

  • Wet snow

    • All elevations

Avalanche Activity

Rising danger of moist/wet avalanches due to rainfall. Attention: weak layers in old snow.

Due to rainfall, increasingly frequent moist/wet-snow avalanches are possible, esp. on steep slopes in all aspects below 2000m. Releases are relatively small and can be triggered in the old snow even by one sole skier. Such danger zones lie on very steep shady slopes and in transitions into gullies and bowls above 2000m on steep N/W/E facing slopes and in gullies and bowls and can reach medium size.

Snowpack Structure

Some rainfall below 2000m, and some snowfall, esp. at high altitudes. Nocturnal outgoing longwave radiation is nearly absent. The snowpack is moist. In the lowermost part of the snowpack there are faceted, expansively metamorphosed weak layers evident, esp. above 2000.

Weather Forecast

On Sunday, dense clouds will accumulate due to strong-velocity SW winds, gusts reaching 80 km/hr. In afternoon, precipitation will taper off in the southern regions. At 2000m: +1 degree. Source: GeoSphere

Tendency

Attention: wet snow and weak layers in the old snow

Bulletin data: Avalanche Warning Service Carinthia, lawinen.report (CC BY 4.0)