Lower Tauern North

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 10-20 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.

On Tuesday, superb weather, visibility more than 100 km, azure skies, light winds (30 km/hr on Main Alpine Ridge in exposed zones). Slightly higher temperatures. At 2000 m: -4 degrees. On Wednesday, good visibility, initially very sunny. Clouds will move in during the afternoon, the light conditions become diffuse. Little wind. At 2000 m: -3 degrees.

No significant change is expected. Steep sunny slopes will moisten.