Lower Tauern South

Avoid fresh snowdrift accumulations and zones below glide cracks

Avoid fresh snowdrift accumulations and zones below glide cracks

Avalanche danger above 1800 m is moderate, below that altitude danger is low. Fresh snowdrift accumulations can trigger by 1 person above 2200 m on steep shady slopes, releases often medium-sized. Danger zones will increase with ascending altitude, also distant from ridges, in steep gullies and bowls and behind discontinuities on W/N/E facing slopes. Danger of glide-snow avalanches is increasing. In high starting zones, avalanches can reach medium-to-large size. Avoid zones below glide cracks. In the course of the day, small loose-snow avalanches can be expected on extremely steep slopes, releases mostly small.

Up to 10 cm of fresh snow formed new snowdrift accumulations, deposited atop a loose snowpack surface on shady slopes. Weak layers occur in the uppermost part of the snowpack. Fresh and older snowdrifts on shady slopes lie atop soft layers (graupel, faceted crystals) and are prone to triggering. Fresh soft snowdrifts blanked older, harder drifts. More deeply embedded weak 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 slightly