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Be careful of snowdrifts.

Be careful of snowdrifts.

Freshly generated snowdrift accumulations are small-sized yet still often prone to triggering, particularly in gullies and bowls above 2400m along the Salzburg border. Avalanches can in isolated cases fracture down to more deeply embedded layers in the old snopwack. Apart from the risks of being buried in snow masses, the danger of taking a fall and being swept along also require consideration.

Freshly generated and older snowdrift accumulations lie deposited particularly above 2400m were depositedon W/N/E facing slopes. More deeply embedded inside the old snowpack are faceted, expansively metamorphosed weak layers, esp. on shady wind-protected slopes. Clear skies are forecast, with low temperatures and low air moisture. Thus, the snowpack will expansively metamorphose during the nocturnal hours. The snowpack is highly diverse even over small areas. There is little snow on the ground.

On Thursday, often gloomy mountain weather. Clouds will predominate, but it will remain mostly dry. The SW winds will initially be strong, even stormy-strength in exposed terrain, then shift to northwesterly in the evening and slacken off measurably. At 1000m: +6 degrees; at 2000m: -1 degree. Source: GeoSphere Austria

No significant change anticiated in avalanche danger