Stub and Gleinalpe

Cold fresh snow

Cold fresh snow

Avalanche danger below the treeline is low, danger is moderate above that altitude. Fresh snowfall from the weekend plus strong winds have generated new snowdrift accumulations. Danger zones occur mostly on E/SW facing steep slopes, where medium-sized slab avalanches can be triggered even by minimum additional loading, e.g. one sole skier.

From Turracher Höhe to Koralpe, 20-35 cm of fresh snow has been registered. Due to dropping temperatures on Saturday, a melt-freeze crust formed at intermediate and high altitudes, atop of which the fresh snow was deposited. Bonding of the cold new snow to the warmer melt-freeze crust beneath it is insufficient.

Dense cloud veil the peaks, visibility is severely limited, sunshine is rare, the clouds will persist. It is icy cold. At 2000 m: -13 degres. Moderate NE winds.

Tuesday’s weather: on the northern flank of the Alps, quite sunny from the start. South of the Niedere Tauern and along the Styrian rimline ranges, clouds will persist, slowly disperse during the daytime. Winds will be moderate from the northeast. Still very cold. At 2000 m: -9 degrees. Avalanche danger levels will slowly recede.