Nock Mountains

Low avalanche danger. Not much snow.

Low avalanche danger. Not much snow.

Avalanche danger is low. Due to higher temperatures and solar radiation, small loose-snow slides can release naturally during the course of the day.

Due to rising temperatures, the snowpack has receded and is moistened at surface level up to intermediate altitudes, or else utterly wet. Overnight a melt-freeze crust can form which will then soften up during the daytime. The snowpack evidences currently no marked weak layers. There is, all in all, little snow on the ground.

On Thursday, initially thin wispy cloudbanks will pass through, hampering the sunshine and creating diffuse light conditions. In the afternoon, clouds will become denser from the west. Winds will be blowing at brisk velocity in the foehn lanes of the Tauern, elsewhere winds will be ight. Temperatures will drop. At 2000m: from 5 in the early morning hours to -1 degree in the evening; at 3000m: from -2 to -7 degrees.

Increasing avalanche danger levels expected due to fresh snow and wind impact.