Lower Tauern South

Small slabs of snow can still be released in a few places

Small slabs of snow can still be released in a few places

The avalanche danger is low. Small slab avalanches can still be triggered by individual winter sports enthusiasts in a few places in the terrain - the high altitudes of the Niedere Tauern and the Northern Alps are particularly affected. Danger areas are located in the extended northern exposures and behind the edges of the terrain as well as the entrance areas of gullies and hollows. Some small sliding snow avalanches can still be triggered from very steep grass mat terrain.

In the high altitudes of the Niedere Tauern and Northern Alps, there are small-scale drift snow packs close to the crest, which lie on the shaded side on an unfavourably built-up old snow cover with soft layers of angular crystals. Some of the drift snow is covered by a small amount of fresh snow. In places where the wind is calm, the snow surface on the shaded side is angular and loose. On the sunny side, the snow cover has settled and may have hardened on the surface. In very steep grassy terrain, the snow cover is still sliding off the ground in some places.

The night will be partly cloudy. There will be more clouds in the area between the Hochkönig and the Osterhorn group or Tennengebirge mountains, where there will also be unproductive precipitation with a snow line of around 1500 metres. On Sunday, visibility in the Northern Alps will often be limited by clouds and fog. It may also rain lightly and snow unproductively above 1600 metres. Apart from exposed high altitudes, the wind will blow only weakly from south-west to west. At 2000 m it will be around -1 degrees, at 3000 m around -7 degrees. A warm front will pass through on Monday night. It will rain and snow from dense clouds, with the snow line rising rapidly to 2000 metres.

With the arrival of a warm front and a rise in the snow line, the avalanche risk increases slightly for a short time.