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Moderate avalanche danger: Spontaneous wet snow avalanches are still possible!

Moderate avalanche danger: Spontaneous wet snow avalanches are still possible!

The avalanche danger is assessed as moderate. Wet slab avalanches can be triggered even under low additional load. Spontaneous wet snow avalanches are also possible with rain. The avalanches are usually small. They can also be medium-sized in steep gullies and bowls. Wechten breaks can trigger naturally triggered avalanches.

Due to the cooling, the firmness of the snowpack at higher altitudes increases again somewhat. At medium altitudes, the snowpack remains moist, at low altitudes it is wet. With the arrival of rain, weak layers between the consolidated windslab snow and the old snowpack in the northern sectors may become prone to triggering again. In the Rax-Schneeberg area, there is little snow below 1400 metres.

A cold front moves in from the west during the night. Scattered showers pass through and the temperature drops. On Easter Monday, clouds will predominate in the first half of the day and a few rain showers will fall. The snowfall level will fluctuate between 1500 and 1800 metres above sea level. In the afternoon, the weather will improve and the clouds will slowly soften, and it will be mostly dry. Temperatures will drop slightly: at 2000 metres from +6 degrees to 0 degrees, at 1500 metres from +15 degrees to +7 degrees. Strong to stormy winds from the west with gusts between 60 and 90 km/h.

Sunny mountain weather will prevail again on Tuesday. The north-westerly wind blows noticeably. The avalanche danger changes only slightly.