Hochschwab Mountains

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Low avalanche danger - fresh snow covering the meadows.

The avalanche danger is low. There are isolated danger spots. These are located in high, shady, very steep entrances to gullies and hollows. Small slab avalanches can be triggered here in drifting snow, particularly due to high additional loads. In addition to the risk of burial, the danger of being swept away and falling should also be taken into account.

There is still more or less continuous snow cover only at high altitudes and on the shaded side. Exposed terrain forms are mostly blown off and bare or icy, only in hollow forms such as gullies and hollows does an old snow cover exist, which is weakened in places by angular crystals. Fresh snow (10 to 20 cm) is deposited on the layers described, some of which is transported.

On Tuesday, an Italian low will bring very cloudy and wet weather to the Styrian mountains. Snowfall will start early in the morning in the Totes Gebirge and spread towards the peripheral mountains as the day progresses. The snow line in the north will often drop into the valleys, in the south it will only start to snow above 1500m, in the afternoon it may snow down to around 700m. The wind will shift to the west to northwest and it will no longer be so stormy with gusts of between 30 and 50 km/h. At 2000m it will cool down to minus 7 degrees in the north and minus 4 degrees in the south.

Wednesday will be sunny and warmer again. The snow cover may settle.