Lower Tauern South

Snowdrift accumulations can be prone to disturbance, beware of injuries from stones

Snowdrift accumulations can be prone to disturbance, beware of injuries from stones

The avalanche danger is low. Slab avalanches can be triggered above 2200 m in a few places by small additional loads (individual people) in the wind slab, but remain small. Be careful in the area of terrain traps, as enough snow could still accumulate here to bury people. Danger areas due to wind slabs are located particularly behind exposed terrain edges and in gullies and bowls. The drift snow packs are usually easily recognisable, but danger areas due to stones under the thin snow cover, snowpack are often not.

The snow cover, snowpack is highly variable. On the surface, there are blown-in areas with clearly recognisable snowdrift accumulations next to blown-off areas where a melt-freeze crust forms the snow surface. Beneath this is a fluffy layer of faceted crystals and melt-freeze crusts. Prone to triggering weak layers are most likely to be found in the fresh drift snow packs and at the transition to the melt-freeze crust. Due to the overall heavily built-up transformed snow cover, the fracture propagation potential deeper in the old snowpack is generally low. The snow depth is well below average at all altitudes.

On Saturday, residual clouds will clear quickly and then the sun will mostly shine. Clouds will gather in the late afternoon and evening. The wind will slowly die down during the day. It will be very cold, with temperatures around -11 degrees at 2000 metres.

No significant change in avalanche danger.