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Heed: fresh snowdrifts, easily triggerable. Gliding snow will increase.

Heed: fresh snowdrifts, easily triggerable. Gliding snow will increase.

Avalanche danger above 2200 m is considerable, beloe that altitude danger is moderate. Freshly generated snowdrift accumulations can be triggered in some danger zones by 1 person and grow to medium size. Danger zones increase with ascending altitude, occur esp. behind discontinuities and in gullies and bowls on W/N/E facing slopes. The danger of glide-snow avalanches below 2200 m is increasing, usually medium-sized, occasionally larger. Avoid zones below glide cracks. During the course of the day, naturally triggered loose-snow avalanches can be expected, releases mostly small.

Up to 20 cm of fresh snow plus stormy winds generated new snowdrifts, deposited on shady slopes atop loose layers. Weak layers occur in the uppermost part of the snowpack and are blanketed by fresh snowfall. Fresh soft snowdrifts lie atop older, harder drifts. The stormy winds has distributed the snow highly irregularly. More deeply embedded layers of faceted crystals near crusts are triggerable only in isolated cases.

Foehn wind will persist along the Tauern during the nicht (windspeeds only up to 70 km/hr). Clouds will remain lodged. In early morning the foehn will intensify again (90 km/hr) possible in the Tauern. On Good Friday, adequate visibility, but deteriorating during the daytime hours. Foehn wind can reach speeds of 100 km/hr, esp. in the Northern Alps at midday. At 2000 m: 7-8 degrees; at 3000 m: -2 degrees.

Gliding snow will increase