Hochschwab Mountains

Main danger: wet-snow/glide-snow avalanches

Main danger: wet-snow/glide-snow avalanches

Above the treeline avalanche danger is moderate. Main danger: naturally triggered loosel-snow and slab avalanches in very steep sunny terrain. Likelihood of triggering increases during the course of the day. In very steep wooded and grassy terrain, esp. on sunny slopes, glide-snow avalanches can be expected. Avoid zones below glide cracks. Snowdrift accumulations settled and calmed. In high-altitude shady terrain where there are reserves of cold in the snowpack, snowdrifts can be triggered as slab avalanches.

Due to strikingly higher temperatures the snowpack was able to settle up to high altitudes. During the night of clear skies the snowpack surface will consolidate. Solar radiation and extremely mild temperatures will make the snowpack forfeit its firmness on sunny slopes and destabilize it, generating more naturally triggered moist avalanches. As the snowpack becomes wetter, gliding snow activity will increase on very steep, sunny slopes. Trigger-sensitive snowpack accumulations lie deposited atop a melt-freeze encrusted snowpack surface in isolated cases at high altitudes. Weak layers lie inside the drifted masses (soft layers, graupel).

A powerful high over the Azores will extend as far as the Eastern Alps and determine weather conditions: mild and sunny. Light northerly winds, the zero-degree level will ascend to over 3000 m. At 2000 m: +8 degrees.

High-pressure front effects will persist until Tuesday, then turbulent conditions are expected and dropping temperatures. For the moment, no significant change.