Mürzsteg Alps

Low avalanche danger only isolated danger zones

Low avalanche danger only isolated danger zones

Avalanche danger is generally low. Older snowdrifts at high altitudes can trigger small slab avalanches in isolated cases. Danger zones occur near ridges, at entries into steep gullies and bowls and behind discontinuities in the terrain.

Well settled fresh snow/snowdrifts lie deposited atop a moist old snowpack and is well bonded with it. Potential weak layer: loose layers inside the old snowpack, and these are consolidating increasingly.

Nighttime skies will be intermittently clear, with delay from Mariazeller Land to Hochwechsel and in the rimline ranges. In NW regions, heavy cloud cover will persist. In early morning, sun windows are possible everywhere, summits will remain in the clear, residual cloud and fog lower down. Most of the sunshine will be on the eastern rim of the Alps and along the Styrian rimline ranges. During the course of the day, clouds will move in, snowfall/rainfall will be isolated, most likely from Dachstein over Niedere Tauern as far as Gurktal and Seetal Alps, further east it will presumably remain dry. Light to moderate S/SE winds. At 2000 m: -6 degrees; at 1500 m: 0 degrees.

Cool, repeated bouts of minor snowfall. Avalanche danger will remain low.