Hochschwab Mountains

Avalanche danger low, little snow.

Avalanche danger low, little snow.

Avalanche danger low. Only in some places in high, steep and shady gullies and bowls small avalanches within the old snow can be triggered with high additional loads. The surface of the snow cover is often hard. Risk of injuries is more likely than risks of falling or being buried.

In general the snow amount is below the average. Southern slopes and exposed areas are predominately bare. The thin snow cover is solidified on the surface with hoar. Elsewhere it is wet even in high altitudes. In places in northern and eastern exposed high-altitudes areas thin layers of snowdrift, which is weakened due to kinetic metamorphosis (faceting).

Persistent influence of a high pressure system in the mountain area is causing a clear night. Wednesday will not be completely clear but with high, thin veil clouds. In high altitudes alongside the Alpenhauptkamm brisk northwesterly winds are possible, elsewhere winds are moderate. Temperatures in 2.000 m at noon are around-2 degrees and in 1.500 around 2 degrees.

Thursday will be increasingly cloudy and it will cool significantly but only little snowfall is called in the northern Alps. The Avalanche danger is not significantly changing.