Nock Mountains

Avoid snowdrift accumulations on steep shady slopes

Avoid snowdrift accumulations on steep shady slopes

Avalanche danger is low. Small slab avalanches can be triggered by one sole skier in a few steep spots. Danger zones occur above 2000m esp. on NW/N/NE facing slopes, on occasion distant from ridgelines. Caution urged esp. at entry points into very steep gullies and bowls. During the course of the day, naturally triggered loose-snow avalanches can be expected in extremely steep south-facing terrain below 2200m. On steep grass-covered slopes, isolated small glide-snow avalanches are possible in isolated cases.

The snowpack surface is highly diverse. On shady slopes the expansively metamorphosed surface can serve as a potential weak layer beneath the snowdrift patches. On sunny slopes there forms a thin melt-freeze crust at night which softens during the daytime, becomes moist, and can forfeit bonding.

Only partially cloudy during the night, more clouds will move in during early morning hours. On Tuesday, pleasant weather with extended sunny phases. Intermittently, clouds will pass through, but little precipitation is expected. Winds initially weak, in afternoon in the foehn lanes of the Tauern brisk, from the south. At 2000m: -2 to +2 degrees; at 3000m: -7 degrees

Reduced nocturnal outgoing longwave radiation is leading to increasing wet-snow and snowdrift problems.