Türnitzer Alpen

Prone to triggering wind slab snow in the higher elevations! Beginning of wet snow problems at lower altitudes.

Prone to triggering wind slab snow in the higher elevations! Beginning of wet snow problems at lower altitudes.

The avalanche risk is low. Nevertheless, there is a slight increase in small, wet loose snow avalanches during the day, which can spontaneously detach from very steep terrain (e.g. forest embankments). Occasionally, small wet snow slabs can also be triggered by winter sports enthusiasts. In high areas on shady slopes, it is also still possible for winter sports enthusiasts to trigger small to medium-sized, dry slab avalanches, in particular at the entrances to steep gullies and bowls.

The snow cover has already settled. The snow surface, which is usually only thinly crusted due to radiation, is not capable of bearing loads and often softens quickly and, depending on the aspect, becomes damp or wet during the day up to high altitudes, which leads to a decreasing firmness and destabilisation of the snowpack. At shady high altitudes, the old snowpack with crusts and embedded angular crystals is unfavourably structured and weakened in places.

The night is cloudless and on Saturday the sun once again shines undisturbed from a bright blue sky, with only a few occasional high clouds passing through. Fog will be limited to the valleys. The wind will blow weakly to moderately from the south at high altitudes. Temperatures of around 9 degrees are expected at an altitude of 1500 metres.

The wet snow problem eases with the influence of the cold front, but the persistent weak layer problem remains in the shady slopes.