Hochschwab Mountains

Wet loose-snow avalanches.

Wet loose-snow avalanches.

Avalanche danger is in general low. In high altitudes fresh snowdrift deposits are formed in the northern expositionsThese can be triggered by an alpinist. Wet loose-snow avalanches can be triggered in the afternoon.

Some new snow covers the stable snow base. Depending on the expostion the snow cover ist moist or wet. Especially on sunny slopes between Niedere Tauern and Koralpe only little amounts of snow. Meadows will be covered with new snow.

Wednesday night the clouds coming from south are getting dense. Before midnight snowfall is called for the southern half of Styria, after midnight inthe northern half. Winds are turning to west or northwest. Cooler airmasses are incoming and the snowline will be 1.000 m in the area of Aussee, 1.200 m in Ennstal Valley and 1.300 m in the upper Murtal Valley. Thursday morning little rain and snowfall in the northern Alps. It will clear up from south. In the afternoon it will change between rainy and sunny weather and the summits can be foggy. Rain and snow showers are possible especially in the north. Snowline will rise from 1.000 m in the morning to 1.600 m in the afternoon.

The avalanche danger can increase slightly on Friday.