Pongau Grass Mountains

Cold powder snow, often without wind impact

Cold powder snow, often without wind impact

Avalanche danger is MODERATE. Artificially or naturally triggered (mostly small) avalanches in very-to-extremely steep terrain are possible. Only few danger zones in steep ridgeline terrain on E/S facing slopes and in steep gullies where minimum additional loading can release a small slab avalanche.

Cold and very loose fresh snow lies deposited atop a shallow, superficially loose old snowpack surface. Low proneness to triggering, only in very exposed zones above the treeline where NW winds have had an impact., are fractures inside the fresh fallen snow possible.

On Sunday, adequate visibility, sunshine only in the background. Some higher summits could be wreathed in fog. Snowfall - hardly any. Winds will be light, moderate at high altitudes, from the northwest. At 1500 m: -9 degrees; at 2000 m: -13 degrees; at 3000 m: -17 degrees.

As a result of intensifying winds and slight rise in temperature, increasing snowdrift problem in exposed terrain.