Nock Mountains

Injury from stones and falling are the main dangers.

Injury from stones and falling are the main dangers.

The avalanche danger is low. Small gliding avalanches can spontaneously release from the north-facing slopes that have not yet been discharged. In shady high altitudes, there are still isolated avalanche prone locations for small slab avalanches that are difficult to trigger in the old snow, especially in gullies and bowls adjacent to the ridgeline, crest or summit. Stones may be covered by a few centimetres of new or drift snow at high altitudes.

The snow depth is well below average for the time of year, low elevations and the sunny slopes are widely covered in snow. Due to heat and rain, the snow cover, snowpack is moist or even wet up to high altitudes and outgoing longwave radiation is reduced at night. In shady slopes at high altitudes, weak layers of angular crystals are still occasionally preserved in the snow cover, mostly in the vicinity of crusts. Especially in the northern Alps, the surface can also be icy here.

On Thursday, there will mostly be good visibility and plenty of sunshine on the mountains. In the morning there will be a few residual clouds, especially in the south-east, and otherwise also fog in the ascent area, in the afternoon some denser clouds will accumulate in the Lungauer Nockberge from the south. It will remain dry. The wind will be mostly light from the south. In the north at 2000 metres around 2 degrees. In the south at 2000 metres around -1 degrees.

The avalanche danger remains low.