Gutensteiner Alpen

Partly prone to wind drifted snow at medium altitudes.

The avalanche risk is not expected to increase. With a northerly high-altitude current, dense clouds will continue to accumulate along the northern side of the Alps until Wednesday, but the amount of new snow will be very low. The north to north-westerly wind will also remain brisk to stormy.

Partly prone to wind drifted snow at medium altitudes.

Pillows of wind drifted snow are sometimes prone to triggering and can be triggered by individuals as a small slide. However, the risk of burial is low. The snowpack can start to glide snow on steep grassy slopes.

From Wednesday evening to Saturday morning, 10 to 40 cm of new fallen snow fell on warm, porous ground in the Gutenstein Alps. On the Hochwechsel and in the Bucklige Welt, the amount of fresh snow was significantly lower at 5 to 20 cm. At low altitudes, the snow is mostly wet. The strong wind caused drift snow packs to form in forest aisles and at higher altitudes.

There will be dense clouds in the coming night, but hardly any snow. At the start of the week, the sun will initially shine over the mountain peaks of Lower Austria. Gradually, however, dense clouds will gather from the west, but it will remain mostly precipitation-free. The temperature at an altitude of 1500 metres will be around -3 degrees. Strong to stormy westerly to north-westerly winds with gusts of between 60 and 90 km/h will blow. The snowfall level will be between 500 and 800 metres above sea level.