Bregenzerwald Mountains

Wet-snow avalanches continue

Wet-snow avalanches continue

Due to striking rise in temperatures and solar radiation, increasingly frequent slides and avalanches can be expected in very steep terrain, the danger of glide-snow avalanches will also increase, releases small-to-medium wherever there is sufficient snow on the ground. The danger of dry-snow avalanches is low, isolated triggerings are possible in extremely steep terrain. Beware the dangers of taking a fall.

The old snowpack is thoroughly moist and wet down to the ground. The surface freezes at night depending on cloud cover andthus, nocturnal outgoing radiation is insufficient to consolidate it, only a thin melt-freeze crust can form which then quickly softens. Due to strong warmth impulse, the snowpack rapidly loses its firmness in the morning hours and weakens the snowpack. Very little snow below 1500 m.

Nocturnal hours: high clouds and Sahara dust will reduce outgoing radiation. Very mild air masses, zero-degree level above 3500 m. Monday daytime: Sahara dust will myke the air hazy, very warm again, zero-degree level above the highest mountaintops in Vorarlberg. At 2000 m: +8 to +13 degrees. Brisk to strong SW winds.

The foehn will end on Tuesday, a cold front will arrive on Tuesday night, bringing a noticeable drop in temperatures and some fresh snowfall down to 1000 m, amounts still uncertain. The danger of wet-snow avalanches will recede. Glide-snow avalanches remain unpredictable.