Hochschwab Mountains

Low avalanche danger

Low avalanche danger

Avalanche danger is low. Due to rain impact and mild temperatures, the focus of danger zones lies on wet-snow and glide-snow avalanches.

The snowpack base is stable by and large, but moist down to the ground, which means it can glide over smooth ground. Atop of it since Friday there has been up to 45 cm of fresh snow registered, often transported by southerly winds and deposited as snowdrifts on north-facing slopes atop soft layers of fresh snow and is often instable, settling is taking its time.

The latest low-pressure front over the weastern Mediterranean is weakening but still impacts the southern flank of the Alps. Thursday will start with high fog north of the Main Alpine Ridge, followed by sunny weather. South of the Tauern, cloud cover will persist, sunshine will be more rare, brief rain showers are possible, snowfall level at 1800 m. At 2000 m: +1 degrees; at 1500 m: +5 degrees. The southerly winds will be light, brisker on the eastern rim of the Alps. On Friday weather conditions will deteriorate. From the south, heavy cloud cover will move in. Light precipitation is possible on the southern flank of the Alps, also on the northern flank by afternoon. The snowfall level will descend from 2000 down to 1300 m.

Gliding snow and wet-snow activity will increase.