Lower Tauern South

Few danger zones. Heed fresh snowdrifts. Avoid transitions into wind-loaded zones

Few danger zones. Heed fresh snowdrifts. Avoid transitions into wind-loaded zones

Avalanche danger is LOW. The snowpack is quite stable. The thin fresh snowdrift patches near ridges are risky mostly for forcing a fall. Old snowpack: only in very few spots can large additional loading trigger a slab. They are found mostly in shallow-snow transitions on shady, extremely steep slopes and in gullies.

There is up to 20 cm of cold powder atop a compact old snowpack. Near ridges the surface is impacted by N/NW winds, but the drifts are not large. Inside the old snowpack are soft layers of faceted crystals, blanketed by hardened crusts and thus, unlikely to trigger. However, they are blanketed by hardened crusts. On steep sunny slopes the snow moistens superficially during the day (breakable melt-freeze).

On Thursday, very sunny, outstanding visibility, few clouds, winds will intensify slightly (30-40 km/hr) from N/NW. At 2000 m: -5 to -3 degrees. On Friday, unimpeded sunshine. Convective cloud build-up starting at midday, but it will remain dry. Cold northerly

No significant change is expected.