Avalanche forecast

Avalanche forecast

LWD Kärnten
View on map

Avalanche danger

Above 1,800 m
2 · Moderate
Below 1,800 m
1 · Low
Out of date — this forecast expired 2 years ago. You’re viewing past conditions, not the current bulletin.

Highlights

Main danger: fresh snowdrifts

Avalanche problems

  • Wind slab

    • Above 1,800 m

Avalanche Activity

Main danger: fresh snowdrifts

As a result of fresh fallen snow and strong-to-stormy SW winds, often trigger-sensitive snowdrift accumulations are being generated during the course of the day in ridgeline terrain, in gullies and bowls and in general above 1800m. These drifts can often be triggered by one sole skier. Releases tend to be small-sized. Apart from the risks of being buried in snow masses, the danger of taking a fall and being swept along also require consideration.

Snowpack Structure

Up to 20 cm of fresh snow is anticipated regionally, locally more. Accompanied by strong to storm-strength SW winds, fresh snowdrifts will accumulate. Shady slopes: the drifts will be deposited atop weak layers. The snowpack is expansively metamorphosed, and is highly diverse even over small areas. There is only little snow on the ground. Below 1600m there is often hardly any snow regionally.

Weather Forecast

On Sunday, gloomy/gray mountain weather with dense clouds, the summits often hidden in fog. Light snowfall (snowfall level at 1400m) in the morning in the Carnic Alps. A strong-to-stormy SW wind will be blowing with windspeeds reaching 40-70 km/hr. At 2000m: -1 degree. Source: GeoSphere Austria

Tendency

Fresh snowdrifts demand close attention

Bulletin data: Avalanche Warning Service Carinthia, lawinen.report (CC BY 4.0)