Nock Mountains

End tours on time!

End tours on time!

The avalanche risk is moderate. Spontaneous avalanche activity increases rapidly as the day warms up and the sun shines. Small and medium-sized wet loose snow avalanches and snow slabs can be expected in all aspects. Tours in terrain that has not yet been unloaded should be ended in good time. Wet avalanches can also be triggered by winter sports enthusiasts. Gliding avalanches are to be expected on typical slopes. In a few places above 2000 metres, snow slabs in the extended northern sector in weak weak layers or the wind slab of the last week can also be triggered.

In the morning, you often find a (brittle) melt-freeze crust on this week's new and wind-slabbed snow, which softens quickly. Underneath is a thin melt-freeze crust from last weekend. There are angular shapes and deep rime in the old snowpack on shady slopes. Breaks are most likely to occur within the no longer quite fresh snowdrift accumulations, increasingly also on the uppermost crust, and only rarely in the floating snow close to the ground. Up to high altitudes, longer sunny slopes become moist to wet down to the ground, and the north-facing snow is also moistened on the surface.

It will clear up during the night, but a few clouds may still pass through or fog may linger. On Easter Sunday, the sun will mostly shine, with occasional high clouds across the sky, but these will not impair visibility. Only in the late afternoon and evening may more compact cloud fields move in from the north-west. The wind will be mostly weak, in the high areas of the northern Alps also moderate from the west. Temperatures will temporarily rise significantly, reaching 4 to 8 degrees at 2000 metres.

Little change with a weak cold front on Monday.