Mürzsteg Alps

Increase in avalanche danger already in the morning!

Spontaneous wet snow avalanches to be expected!

The avalanche danger increases from low to moderate during the course of the day. Spontaneous avalanche activity increases during the day with the sunshine. Small to medium-sized wet loose snow and slab avalanches are to be expected in particular on sunny slopes. In extremely steep, shady areas above 2000 m, small to medium-sized slab avalanches can also be triggered very occasionally (persistent weak layer problem).

The snowpack is damp or wet in all areas and can start to glide on slippery surfaces. Only in very shady areas above 2000 metres does the snowpack still have cold reserves and in some cases weak layers in the persistent weak layer. In general, there is little snow and lower altitudes are increasingly thinning out.

A weak cold front will move in from the west during the night of Easter Monday. However, the unproductive showers in the northern Alps will not spread to the southern side of the Niedere Tauern. In the afternoon, the clouds will soften in the north and it will be mainly sunny all day south of the main Alpine ridge. The temperature at 2000 metres above sea level will be between 0 and +4 degrees. The wind will be brisk, in the east also strong from west to north-west.

Sunny mountain weather will prevail again on Tuesday. The north-westerly wind blows noticeably. The avalanche danger changes only slightly.