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Caution: weak layers in old snow.

Caution: weak layers in old snow.

Due to light-to-moderate southerly winds, fresh snowdrift accumulations have been generated esp. in ridgeline terrain. The fresh drifts are small but often prone to triggering. Due to daytime warming and solar radiation, increasingly frequent generally wet loose-snow avalanches are possible, esp. on extremely steep sunny slopes. Avalanches are triggerable by persons in the weak old snow, esp. on W/N/E facng slopes, releases usually small-sized. Due to light to moderate southerly winds, mostly small snowdrift accumulations are being generated, esp. on ridgeline slopes above 2200m.

Due to southerly winds, small snowdrift accumulations will be generated. Fresh drifts lie deposited esp. on shady slopes atop weak layers. Sunny slopes: Due to low temperatures and low air moisture, a surface crust forms during the nocturnal hours. Solar radiation and daytime warmth lead to significantly moister snowpack, esp. on extremely steep slopes. Shady slopes: inside the snowpack are expansively metamorphosed (faceted) weak layers, esp on W/N/E facing slopes above 2200m. The old snowpack is expansively metamorphosed (faceted) on the surface.

On Friday, still radiantly sunny, often cloudless skies and outstanding visibility. Slight foehn wind influence, southerly winds mostly light (40/60 km/hr in exposed terrain). At midday at 1000m: +13 degrees; at 2000m: +3 degrees; at 3000m: -5 degrees. Source: GeoSphere Austria