Snow conditions 14.5.2012

With the passage of a pronounced cold front from Saturday to Sunday, it cooled significantly in the mountains. More precipitation fell as rain, so around 10 cm of snow fell in the high mountains with the cooling, which mostly froze to the base. It snowed up to an altitude of about 800 m, but lower down the snow melted quickly.

Consolidated snow cover is mostly only in gullies and on plateaus. It is mostly well transformed. The top layer of new snow is soft, the old snow is frozen. At 1500 m there is no consolidated snow cover, at 2500 m there is snow in the Julian Alps up to about 150 cm. Avalanche danger is level 1. The snow cover is mostly stable, only occasionally on steep slopes can a small slab of new snow release under heavy load.

Today and tomorrow partly clear with variable cloudiness.

The freezing level will rise to about 2000 m today, tomorrow to about 2500 m. Therefore, the snow cover will settle during the day and freeze at night. On Wednesday there will be precipitation again, the snow line will drop to about 800 m with cooling. Precipitation will be less than last weekend. In the second half of the week it will slowly warm up, sunny weather will prevail. Snow will therefore melt and new snow will transform and settle.

From today we are ending regular reporting on snow cover conditions in the mountains. We will resume reports after 15 November or earlier with more abundant snowfall in the mountains.



General avalanche danger is level 1 on the European five-level scale.



Source: ARSO