Gutensteiner Alpen

Partly prone to wind drifted snow at medium altitudes.

Partly prone to wind drifted snow at medium altitudes.

A few centimetres of new fallen snow will be added locally on Sunday, but this will mostly be blown away by the wind. Pillows of wind drifted snow are prone to triggering at medium altitudes.

From Wednesday evening to Saturday morning, 10 to 40 cm of new fallen snow fell on warm, porous ground in the Gutenstein Alps. On the Hochwechsel and in the Bucklige Welt, the amount of fresh snow was significantly lower at 5 to 20 cm. The strong winds caused drift snow packs to form at higher elevations, which were partially covered by a few centimetres of new fallen snow on Sunday.

A disturbance zone will approach from the west during the night. Clouds will therefore increase again, but it will remain mostly free of precipitation. On Sunday, the mountains will be shrouded in thick clouds for most of the day and it will snow at times. However, the amount of new snow will be very low and limited to a few centimetres. Clear spells will remain the exception. The snowfall level is between 500 and 800 metres. At higher altitudes, the wind will again be gale-force from west to north with peak wind speeds of between 60 and 100 km/h.

The avalanche risk is not expected to increase. With a northerly high-altitude current, dense clouds will accumulate along the northern side of the Alps for almost the entire Holy Week, but the amount of new snow will be mostly low. The north to north-westerly winds will also remain brisk to stormy.