Hochschwab Mountains

Caution: snowdrift accumulations in high altitudes!

Caution: snowdrift accumulations in high altitudes!

Still low avalanche danger. Danger spots can be located in high altitudes in the expositions north to east and behind ridgelines. There slab avalanches and driftsnow accumulations could be triggered in extremly steep slopes by high additional loads.

In high altitudes small amounts of snowdrift accumulations have formed which partially are on top of faceted snow which can be considered as weak layer or they are on top of a hard surface. Blown-off areas are hard and icy. The kinetic metamorphosis weakens the snow base.

Thursday night a weak warm front passes through which will not cause any precipitation. During the day sunny and mild weather in the mountains with some thin veil clouds. Weakly winds and Temperatures in 2.000 at noon are around 1 degrees in the western mountains and -1 degrees in the eastern mountains at noon.

On Saturday a southwestern stream will cause mild and predominantly sunny mountain weather. The avalanche danger stays low.