Pongau Grass Mountains

Few avalanche prone locations due to persistent weak layers of snow

Few avalanche prone locations due to persistent weak layers of snow

The avalanche risk is low. Above around 2000 m, small slab avalanches can still be triggered in the persistent weak layer in a few places in the steep terrain looking from north-west to north to east. Danger areas are located at the transition from little to more snow and generally next to blown-off areas as well as in the entrance areas to gullies and bowls filled with wind slab. There are small-scale avalanche prone locations due to prone to triggering, fresh wind slab in the sectors from north to south-east. The risk of falling and injury generally outweighs the risk of burial, be careful in the area of terrain traps.

New and windslab snow cover a very varied surface: steep sunny slopes below around 1500 m were recently bare. Otherwise, the base is often crusted, sometimes hard, and still soft in wind-protected high altitudes. On wind-protected shady slopes above around 2000 m, surface hoar is sometimes covered with snow. Especially in northern and eastern aspects, bonded snow overlays a weak old snowpack of faceted crystals and deep frost. High temperatures and rainfall have moistened the snowpack up to around 2000 metres.

Clouds will be dense from the start on Saturday, but visibility will initially only be limited at high altitudes in the Tauern and Nockberge mountains. In the afternoon, the cloud base will drop and the mountains will become increasingly foggy. Light snowfall sets in. The snowfall level will initially be around 1400 metres and will fall during the day. It will snow 5 cm to a maximum of 10 cm by the evening. During the day, the wind will shift to the north and reach speeds of around 40 km/h in the evening. At 2000 m around -3 degrees.

The risk of avalanches increases with new fallen snow and wind.