Nock Mountains

Watch out locally for small snowdrift accumulations

Watch out locally for small snowdrift accumulations

The avalanche risk is low, isolated danger areas due to small-scale snowdrift accumulations are located behind the edges of the terrain adjacent to the ridgeline as well as in gullies and bowls. The drift snow packs are usually easily recognisable, but danger areas due to stones under the thin snow cover, snowpack are often not.

The snow cover is below average. The snow cover, snowpack is highly variable and touring options are severely limited. In shady slopes at high altitudes, there are isolated weak layers of faceted crystals in the snow cover, mostly in the vicinity of crusts. Away from this, there is a succession of thin layers of drift snow on the meadows.

Clouds will initially move in during the night, clearing from midnight. Only in Lungau may there be some unproductive snowfall. On Sunday, the sun will mostly shine unclouded with good visibility. Mostly weak to moderately strong westerly winds with gusts of around 30 km/h, easing during the day. It will continue to be very cold, with freezing temperatures of -13 to -10 degrees at 2000 metres.

No change in avalanche danger.