Fischbach Alps East, Wechsel

Low avalanche danger, small fresh snowdrift patches

Low avalanche danger, small fresh snowdrift patches

Avalanche danger is generally low. Snowdrifts generated on Friday have formed thin patches which could not settle on shady slopes and in isolated cases are triggerable as small slab avalanches. Danger zones near ridges and behind discontinuities in the terrain.The dangers of falling outweigh those of being buried in snow masses.

Snowdrift accumulations are relatively small, but poorly bonded. Faceted layers and surface hoar clinging to a melt-freeze crust are potential weak layers. The old snowpack beneath them is compact, without marked weak layers. The snowpack surface is melt-freeze encrusted, hard and often icy. but the surface on sunny slopes is soft.

On Sunday, fine wintery weather will predominate with lots of sunshine. Follow and cold night of clear skies, the early part of the day will. be cloudless with outstanding visibility. Some cloudbanks will pass through in the afternoon. Milder. At 2000 m rising to 0 degrees, at 1500 m rising to +2 degrees. Light winds will be westerly. On Monday, extensive cloudbanks along the Northern Alps and Niedere Tauern, but it will remain dry. In the south, sunshine in the morning, then clouds will move in. Winds initially brisk from the west. Temperatures rising. At 2000 m to +6 degrees.

Snowdrift danger will recede, isolated wet-snow avalanches