Lower Tauern South

Individual sliding snow avalanches, isolated danger spots in old snow

Individual sliding snow avalanches, isolated danger spots in old snow

The risk of avalanches is low, the risk of falling or being injured on rocks is greater than the risk of burial. There are isolated danger spots for slab avalanches at high altitudes (old snow problem), particularly on extremely steep, shady slopes, especially in gullies and hollows. In a few places, mainly small avalanches can be triggered by people. Small, spontaneous sliding snow avalanches are possible from very steep, undischarged grass mat terrain.

The surface is dominated by (fractured) hardpack or crusts, some of which soften during the day. At shady high altitudes, there are angular crystals within the snowpack near the crusts, which can occasionally serve as a weak layer. Below this, the snow cover is stable and sometimes glides on a smooth surface. Overall, there is very little snow, and on the sunny side, it is snow-free far up.

Saturday night will be mostly slightly cloudy and windless above the valley fog. On Saturday, localised patches of fog with an upper limit of no more than 1000 m may disturb and restrict visibility only near the valley. Otherwise, with very good visibility, the sun will dominate alongside a few thin veil clouds far above summit level. The wind will be mostly light from west to north-west. At 2000 m around 4 degrees, at 3000 m around -2 degrees.

Little change.