Bregenzerwald Mountains

Increasing avalanche danger due to fresh snow and winds

Increasing avalanche danger due to fresh snow and winds

Additional trigger-sensitive snowdrift accumulations are forming. The accumulations can be easily triggered even by one sole skier. Danger zones occur in wind-loaded steep terrain, in gullies and bowls, and behind protruberances in the landscape. Size and frequency of danger zones tend to increase with ascending altitude. In zones where there has been rain impact, slides and small wet-snow avalanches are possible. Glide-snow avalanches, mostly small, continue to be possible. Caution urged below glide cracks.

Trigger sensitive snowdrift accumulations will be generated. Also older accumulations can be triggered. The old snowpack is by and large well consolidated. Due to rain impact, the snowpack has been weakened. Glide-snow avalanches continue to be possible.

The night will remain free of precipitation. Wednesday will begin with gray skies and snowfall, the snowfall level rising gradually from valley floor to nearly 2300m. In the afternoon, drier conditions wil prevail. At 2000m: -2 to +4 degrees. Strong to stormy westerly winds and stormy gusts at high altitudes.

Variable conditions, fresh snowdrift accumulations remain prone to triggering