Villach Alps

Favorable avalanche situation

Favorable avalanche situation

Quite favorable avalanche conditions prevail in general. Due to solar radiation, isolated moist avalanches can be expected during the course of the day, esp. on extremely steep sunny slopes. On hardened surfaces, acute danger of falls, esp. in the morning hours.

Nocturnal outgoing longwave radiation will be quite good. The snowpack surface will freeze and be capable of bearing loads in early morning, softening subsequently over the course of the day. The old snowpack is moist, particularly on sunny slopes at all altitudes and on shady slopes below 2100m. Inside the old snowpack on N/W/E-facing slopes there are faceted, expansively metamorphosed weak layers, esp. abov 2100m. Below 1600m there is hardly any snow on the ground.

On Thursday a variety of clouds and sunshine, the highest summmits will often disappear in the convective clouds and fog. In exposed terrain, a strong NW wind will be blowing, gusts reaching 70 km/hr. At 1000m: 11 degrees; 2000m: +1 degree. Source: GeoSource Austria

Slight increase in avalanche danger levels due to higher daytime temperatures and solar radiation