Gutensteiner Alpen

Pay attention to the wind slab problem!

Pay attention to the wind slab problem!

The fresh wind slab is prone to triggering in places and can be triggered by even a small additional load. Avalanche prone locations are mainly found in gullies, bowls and behind terrain edges down to forest aisles. Slab avalanches can reach medium size.

In the past week, snow has repeatedly fallen in combination with strong to stormy winds. The new fallen snow was transported intensively and formed drift snow packs.

Where there is an old snowpack, the drift snow packs are deposited on it and can slide off. In addition, fractures within the drift snow layers are also possible in isolated cases.

In places protected from the wind, there is up to 60 cm of snow in places above around 800 m, which has built up over the last week. Exposed locations, on the other hand, are often heavily blown off.

The sky will remain mostly cloudy, with a few snowflakes falling in the northern congestion. Thick clouds will often prevail over the Lower Austrian mountain peaks on Maundy Thursday and it will occasionally snow lightly over the western peaks. Over the eastern mountain peaks, winds from the north will be stormy in places, but weaker towards the west. Temperatures at 1500 metres will be around -2 °C.

The avalanche danger remains the same.