Lower Tauern South

During the daytime changes, the triggering of wet avalanches increases somewhat.

During the daytime changes, the triggering of wet avalanches increases somewhat.

There is a moderate avalanche danger from around 2200 metres, rising from low to moderate during the morning. Wet loose snow avalanches and snow slabs can be triggered by individuals in all aspects, the probability of triggering increases slightly during the daytime changes. The avalanches usually remain small to medium-sized. Sliding snow avalanche activity is also to be expected on typical slopes. In a few places above 2200 m in the extended northern sector, weak layers in the persistent weak layer can also be disturbed by individuals; the snow slabs can reach medium size.

In the morning, the snow surface is crusted can form and hard, but rarely stable. The melt-freeze crust softens again during the morning, especially on sunny slopes. Moisture is increasingly penetrating the snowpack, with dry snow on the surface only at shady high altitudes. At medium altitudes, the snow is already soaked far down or down to the ground. On shady slopes from around 2200 metres upwards, the old snowpack contains angular shapes and deep rime. Fractures are most likely to occur on one of the uppermost crusts and only rarely in the floating snow near the ground. Some of the snow glides off the ground.

The first half of the night will be starry, then clouds will gather repeatedly. On Thursday, fields of cloud will continue to move through from the north, but the sun will mostly shine and the peaks will remain clear. A brisk wind from the north-west to north with gusts of up to 60 km/h will blow in the summit area. At 2000 metres it will be between around 4 degrees in the afternoon and around -4 degrees at 3000 metres.

A disturbance zone will bring precipitation (snowfall level at around 1800 m) and wind on Friday. Fresh wind slab will develop at high altitudes. There will be little change to the danger scale.