Nock Mountains

Watch out locally for small snowdrift accumulations

Watch out locally for small snowdrift accumulations

The avalanche risk is low, isolated danger areas due to small-scale snowdrift accumulations are located behind terrain edges and in gullies and bowls. The drift snow packs are usually easily recognisable, but danger areas due to stones under the thin snow cover, snowpack are often not.

There is a below-average amount of snow, the snow cover, snowpack is highly variable and touring options are severely limited. In shady slopes at high altitudes, there are isolated weak layers of faceted crystals in the snow cover, mostly in the vicinity of crusts. Away from this, there is a succession of thin layers of drift snow on the meadows.

On Saturday, residual clouds will clear quickly and then the sun will mostly shine. Clouds will gather in the late afternoon and evening. The wind will die down during the day. It will be very cold, with temperatures around -11 degrees at 2000 metres.

No change in avalanche danger.