Lower Tauern Central

Avoid terrain under sliding snow cracks and small-scale drift snow areas

Avoid terrain under sliding snow cracks and small-scale drift snow areas

The avalanche danger is low. The main problem is the sliding snow on slopes with exposures from east to south to west. Small sliding snow avalanches can occur spontaneously up to the summits. There are localised danger spots for mostly small slab avalanches (drift snow problem), particularly in the Tauern region and in the high altitudes of the northern Alps.

The snow surface is often loose and angular on the shaded side. In the high altitudes of the Tauern and Northern Alps, there are also small-scale drifts on the shaded side, which can be disturbed on the loose base. On the sunny side, the snow cover has settled a long way up and may have hardened in the morning. Snow sliding is observed on steep grass mats.

On Thursday, extensive and sometimes quite dense cloud fields will pass through. Visibility will be adequate, but the light may be very diffuse. There will only be a few sunny spells in between. A brisk southerly wind will blow in the foehn corridors of the Tauern, otherwise windy conditions will prevail. At 2000 metres between -2 and +1 degrees, at 3000 metres around -5 degrees.

Little change. The unproductive snowfall on Friday night does not change the situation significantly.