Lower Tauern South

Circumvent snowdrift accumulations

Circumvent snowdrift accumulations

Avalanche danger above the timberline is MODERATE. Slabs, mostly small-sized, can be triggered even by minimum additiional loading both near to and distant from ridgelines and behind protruberances in the landscape on north, east and south facing slopes. If they fracture down to more deeply embedded layers in the snowpack the releases can grow to medium size. Isolated sm glide-snow and loose-snow avalanches can trigger naturally.

On top of a shallow and relatively compact snow cover, less than 30cm of snow and drifts (with embedded graupel) lie deposited. The border to the old snowpack can serve as a weak layer, more deeply embedded weak layers are triggerable only in isolated cases.

On Saturday night, clouds will become dense. At midnight, light minor snowfall will set in, strong-velocity N/NW winds will arise (windspeeds of 50 km/hr). On Sunday, lots of cloud cover, intermittent light snowfall, only minor amounts expected. In the afternoon, precipiation will ease off, clouds disperse only gradually. At 2000m: -11 degrees; at 3000m: -15 degrees.

Avalanche danger levels gradually decreasing