5.02.2014
On Monday it was mostly dry weather, on Tuesday and in the night to Wednesday there were occasional precipitation mainly in the western part of our mountains and hills, mostly snowing. By Wednesday morning 5 to 20 cm of snow had fallen, in the east only a few centimetres.
The snow cover has settled and slowly transformed. There was almost no sun and the temperature was below zero all the time.
The snow cover reaches the lowlands. The most snow is above 2000 m in the western Julian Alps, where there is more than 550 cm, elsewhere in the Julian Alps around 400 cm, in the western and central Karawanks and Kamnik-Savinja Alps also over 230 cm. At 1500 m it is around 270 cm in the Julian Alps and western Karawanks, elsewhere less than 100 cm. The snow is light and soft and sinks deeply, sometimes covered with crust.
Avalanche danger is 4th degree in the Julian Alps and in the high mountains of the western and central Karawanks, lower in the Karawanks and in the eastern part of our mountains 3rd degree.
The snow cover is still quite unstable. There will be less spontaneous avalanching, we expect mostly small and individual medium-sized avalanches mainly from steeper slopes. In the east there will be little spontaneous avalanching. The snow cover is also potentially unstable and can be triggered by minor additional load mainly on steeper slopes and places with wind-blown snow.
Tonight in the mountains there will still be occasional snow, by morning up to 5 to maximum 10 cm of snow can fall, in the east until tomorrow morning only a few centimetres. Strengthened southwesterly wind will create wind slabs and slabs. Tomorrow during the day it will clear up. The sun will crust the snow surface on sun-exposed slopes mainly in the mid-mountains. By Friday morning the snow will settle a bit more, but it will not stabilise significantly, except on sun-exposed slopes and below around 1400 m, where it will be icy.
The next snow report will be issued on Friday, 7.2.2014.
General avalanche danger is 4th degree on the European five-level scale.
Source: ARSO