Mürztal Alps

Generally low danger but caution urged towards isolated naturally triggered glide-snow avalanches

Generally low danger but caution urged towards isolated naturally triggered glide-snow avalanches

Generally low danger, but isolated naturally-triggered glide-snow avalanches cannot be excluded. Danger zones: steep grassy slopes, hillsides, forest clearances. Avoid glide cracks. New snowdrift accumulations have formed, danger zones occur above the timberline esp. on steep east-facing slopes behind discontinuities, and can be triggered by one person, releasing as a small slab avalanche. Acute danger of falling.

The old snowpack is compact, no marked weak layers, riddled with water seepage channels. The snowpack is gliding downhill over smooth ground. Some fresh snowfall and drifts esp. on east-facing slopes, poorly bonded with the encrusted old snowpack surface.

A weak Atlantic front will reach the Eastern Alps (and pass through quickly to the SE) in the form of a westerly high-altitude airstream, bringing clouds and gray skies during the night, hardly any precipitation, moderate westerly winds in the northern mountain ranges, higher temperatures (not on the southern flank of the Alps). At 2000 m: -0 degrees; at 1500 m: +4 degrees. On Thursday, increasing sunshine, mild. Heavy clouds on the northern flank of the Alps, some brief showers. Westerly winds will be brisk, temperatures dropping by 3 degrees.

Avalanche danger levels are not expected to change significantly, low avalanche danger continues.