Nock Mountains

Isolated danger zones for wet-snow avalanches

Isolated danger zones for wet-snow avalanches

Avalanche danger is low. In isolated cases, small glide-snow or wet-snow avalanches can release in steep terrain which has not yet discharged or it can be triggered by persons.

On sunny slopes, the ground is becoming bare. What little snow there is, is moist-to-wet (0-degree isotherm) and often forms a crust capable of bearing loads after a night of clear skies. Daytime warming and solar radiation soften the crust and make it forfeit its firmness.

Monday night skies will be densely cloudy, final showers will taper off in the early part of the night. On Tuesday, residual clouds and high-altitude cirrus clouds, but intermittent sunshine. Dry skies in the morning, frequent showers later on south of the Tennengebirge, isolated thunderstorms. Snowfall level at 2700m. Winds light to moderate from the north, also from the south on the Main Alpine Ridge. At 2000m: +3 degrees in the north, +7 degreres in the south; at 3000m: -2 degrees.

On Wednesday, more marked daytime danger cycle of naturally triggered avalanches due to previously improved nocturnal outgoing radiation.