Bregenzerwald Mountains

Older snowdrift accumulations are still prone to triggering with ascending altitude

Older snowdrift accumulations are still prone to triggering with ascending altitude

Older snowdrift accumulations are still prone to triggering with ascending altitude. Danger zones occur esp. in steep terrain and in wind-loaded gullies and bowls. Avalanches can be triggered even by the weight of one sole skier and reach medium size. Higher daytime temperatures and solar radiation can cause naturally triggered small-to-medium glide snow avalanches and moist slides on very steep slopes.

The snow is moist or wet up to high altitudes. During partly clear nights, a breakable crust (at high altitudes capable of bearing loads) forms which then softens during the daytime. Fresh snow has settled well and stabilised but is prone to triggering with ascending altitude.

Nocturnal hours: cloudy-to-clear skies, fogbanks below the treeline. Tuesday: sunny esp. in high alpine regions, but with some residual fog which will transform to convective cloud during the afternoon. Slightly higher temperatures. At 2000 m: -3 to +2 degrees. Light easterly winds.

On Wednesday, some sunshine, later the clouds will move in, in the afternoon rainfall and snowfall will set in. Wednesday night there will be snowfall down to 1000 m. On Wednesday the danger of dry-snow avalanches will then decrease, the danger of wet-snow avalanches will increase. On Thursday, instable weather conditions with precipitation, snowfall level at 1000 m. Danger of dry-snow avalanches will again increase, of wet-snow avalanches decrease.