Lower Tauern South

Wind slabs and stones are the main danger.

Wind slabs and stones are the main danger.

The avalanche danger is low. Above around 2400 m, small snow slabs can still be triggered in a few places in the wind slab. Be careful in the area of terrain traps, where enough snow could accumulate to bury people. Drift snowpacks are most likely to be located behind terrain edges adjacent to the ridgeline and in gullies and bowls and are usually easily recognisable, but danger areas due to stones under the thin snow cover, crest or summit are often not.

The snow cover, snowpack is highly variable. Wind slab snow lies adjacent to the ridgeline on a crusted can form old snow surface. Weak layers are most likely to be found in the wind slab and at the transition to the melt-freeze crust. Below this are layers of faceted crystals and melt-freeze crusts. However, due to the heavily built-up transformed snow cover, the potential for fracture propagation is generally low. On the sunny slopes, the snow cover, snowpack is hard and crusted can form, or the subsoil is only thinly covered. The snow depth is still well below average at all altitudes.

On Tuesday, the sun will mostly shine in the northern Alps, along the Tauern there will still be high clouds at times dampening the sun. In Lungau, the cloud cover will mostly remain dense. The wind will be light at first, but will pick up from the north during the course of the day at high altitudes, reaching speeds of around 40 kilometres per hour. It will remain cold, at 2000 metres the temperature will be around -13 degrees.

It remains cold, the new and wind slab snow is slow to settle.