Fischbach Alps East, Wechsel

Low avalanche danger, favorable conditions, daytime wet-snow activity on steep slopes

Low avalanche danger, favorable conditions, daytime wet-snow activity on steep slopes

Apart from increasingly poor visibility, generally favorable backcountry touring conditions prevail, with low avalanche danger, despite ongoing wet-snow and glide-snow avalanches in extremely steep terrain. Avoid glide cracks and fishbones!

The snowpack is still melt-freeze encrusted in early morning, but quickly becomes moist and rotten. Only on steep shady slopes at high altitudes is the snow still cold and hard. The slopes are becoming bare of snow. Backcountry touring possibilities are already much reduced.

High-pressure front weather conditions which have persisted through nearly all of March have ended. Over the western Mediterranean a low pressure front has formed with a SW air current, bringing moderately moist air masses our way. On Tuesday night, high-altitude clouds will move in, on Wednesday the clouds will drop lower, the peaks will become shrouded in fog. In the afternoon, light rainfall will set in from the south. Some bright intervals are possible in the morning, most likely from Hochschwab eastwards. Winds will be moderate from the southwest, shifting in the evening to northwest. At 2000 m: +2 degrees; at 1500 m: +6 degrees. On Thursday, heavy cloud will dominate throughout the land, the peaks will be veiled in fog, snowfall above 1200-1400 m. On Friday, further precipitation, with a descending snowfall level. Temperatures will drop, winds will still be moderate.

Starting on Thursday, fresh snowdrifts will be generated at high altitudes, avalanche danger will rise slightly.