Lower Tauern South

Danger zones in gullies and transitions where the snow is shallow

Danger zones in gullies and transitions where the snow is shallow

Avalanche danger is LOW. Isolated danger zones in transitions in shady and high alpine trerrain, wehre large additional loading can trigger a slab avalanches which could attain medium size. The fresh snowdrifts in W/S/E facing ridgeline terrain are generally thin, the biggest risk is being forced to take a fall.

On shady wind-protected slopes there is settled powder atop a compact old snowpack. Near ridges the surface is wind-impacted, and these effects increase visibly with ascending altitude. On steep sunny slopes the snow is moistened up to intermediate altitudes, the nocturnally formed melt-freeze crust softens up. Hidden beneath the compact wind crusts are soft, faceted layers (persistent weak layer). These layers tend towards fracture propagation but are unlikely to trigger. In isolated cases there are initial sings of a near-surface COLD ON WARM problem on steep high-alpine sunny slopes (above 2600 m).

On Sunday, sunny weather, low lying residual cloud, impaired visibility. No precipitation. At 2000 m: -12 to -8 degrees. NE winds in exposed terrain will be brisk (30 km/hr). On Monday the visibility in the Northern Alps will often be limited by low lying clouds. In the inneralpine grassy mountains and Tauern, visibility will swiftly improve and sunshine is expected even in the morning hours. Winds at high altitudes will be blowing at 30-50 km/hr from the north. At 2000 m: -12 to -8 degrees; at 3000 m: -13 degrees.

No significant change is expected.