Villach Alps

CAUTION: Increasing danger of moist/wet avalanches due to rainfall. Fresh drifts at high altitudes.

CAUTION: Increasing danger of moist/wet avalanches due to rainfall. Fresh drifts at high altitudes.

Due to rainfall, increasingly frequent moist/wet avalanches are possible below 2000m, esp. on very steep slopes in all aspects. Avalanches tend to be small-sized, triggerable even by one sole person. Moderate strength winds from the south: often trigger-sensitive snowdrift accumulations will be generated in ridgeline teerrain, esp. at high altitudes. Weak layers inside the old snow can be triggered in isolated cases, esp. on very steep W/N/E facing slopes and at the foot of rock wall. Avalanches can in isolated cases grow to medium size.

Rainfall below 2000m, above that altitude up to 15cm of fresh snow is expected, locally more, esp. at high altitudes in SW regions. Winds will transport the fresh and old snow. Fresh drifts will be deposited on W/N/E facing slopes at high altitudes atop soft layers. In the lowermost part of the snowpack on W/N/E facing slopes there are faceted, expansively metamorphosed weak layers evident.

In early morning, dense clouds, rainfall and snowfall in the Carnic Alps, the cloud level will rapidly drop during the morning hours, higher peaks disappear in fog. Rain, snowfall will spread over all the mountain regions. In the southern Kalkalpen: most precipitation expected, in the north less. In afternoon, weather conditions will improve, some bright intervals are anticipated. Southerly winds will remain a perturbance. At 2000m: +1 degree. Source: GeoSphere Austria

Rising avalanche danger during the daytime due to rain, snow, wind