Wölz Tauern South

Persistent weak layer problem! Take particular care in gullies and bowls in northern and eastern exposures!

Persistent weak layer problem! Take particular care in gullies and bowls in northern and eastern exposures!

The avalanche risk is assessed as moderate above the tree line and low below. The snow layering is still very weak, especially in the northern and eastern sectors. Here, avalanches can be triggered by even small additional loads and can reach medium size when breaking through the weak old snowpack. In some cases, there is a thin, bound layer from the last snowfall. The danger areas are mainly located in the transition from little to more snow as well as behind terrain edges and in the entrance area of gullies and bowls. Some of the avalanche prone locations are difficult to recognise.

The total snow depth is well below average. A thin, partly bound snowpack covers a very variable and mostly hard old snowpack. There is significantly more snow in shady gullies and bowls than on sunny slopes, which are partly bare up to 2000 metres. In the northern and eastern exposures, the snowpack is still weakened by layers with faceted crystals and floating snow (persistent weak layer problem!).

Fog and high fog will persist in the south and east on Monday night. Snow drizzle or small snowflakes will fall in many places, especially along the peripheral mountains. Over the Upper Styrian mountains, however, the sky will clear up more and more as the night progresses. And so Monday starts very sunny and dry in the Styrian mountains. Only the high fog will remain over the foothills with an upper limit around 1300 metres above sea level. On the slopes of the peripheral mountains, it may snow or drizzle at times. The temperature at an altitude of 2000 metres will be between -7 and -2 degrees. The temperature at an altitude of 1500 metres is between -5 and 0 degrees. Winds will be weak to moderate with gusts between 20 and 40 km/h from the south-east to south-west.

No change in the avalanche risk is expected. On Tuesday, the wind will be temporarily lively, even strong in exposed high areas. Apart from that, the programme will start with sunny leisure weather, with the first extensive cloud fields arriving in the afternoon. In the evening it will become cloudy from the south, with rain and snowfall becoming more frequent during the night into Wednesday and on Wednesday itself, with the snowfall level expected to be around 1300 metres from today's perspective.