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Beware wet snow

Beware wet snow

Wet-snow avalanches can be triggered by winter sports enthusiasts and grow to medium size. These avalanche prone locations are located particularly on W/N/E-facing slopes slopes. Rainfall anticipated in the afternoon hours, thereby the likelihood of avalanches triggering will increase.

Weather conditions are making the snowpack ever wetter, leading to a loss of firmness inside the snowpack, resulting to loss of snowpack firmness. Many starting zones have already completely dishcharged. Nocturnal outgoing longwave radiation hardly exists. The snowpack surface can barely freeze and softens rapidly. The snowpack is thoroughly wet. On steep sunny slopes below 1700m, hardly any snow on the ground.

Morning hours will be stable, with sunshine. As of midday, increasing convective cloud build-up, rain showers are likely as a consequence, also isolated thunderstorms. Moderate to strong-velocity southerly winds, in showers they can reach storm-strength. At 2000m: +5 degrees.Source: GeoSource Austria

Little change in avalanche danger levels