Category: Current situation
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Delicate situation regionally for winter sports enthusiasts. Two fatal avalanche accidents in Stubai Alps.
Numerous naturally triggered avalanches We have just completed a phase of numerous naturally triggered avalanches. Some were very large and swept over exposed transportation routes, primarily in the western regions where snowfall was heaviest. Due to higher temperatures and rain impact, glide-snow avalanches have also increased. Particularly in East Tirol where snowfall has been heavy,…
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Help us avoid unnecessary rescue operations – Please report all “non-injury” avalanches to headquarters!
Avalanches involving persons with definitely no injuries, i.e. where help is unnecessary, are called “negative avalanches” by Avalanche Headquarters in Tirol. In order to avoid all cost-intensive avalanche operations, we appeal to winter sports enthusiasts to report all negative avalanches to headquarters. Please call Avalanche Emergency tel. no. 140 to report these directly! Please also…
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Warm front + snowfall + storm wind leading to significant increase in avalanche danger. Naturally triggered avalanches expected.
Breaking news: Big daytime rise in risks today (28.01.21). High avalanche danger. A warm front from the Atlantic has been generating our weather conditions since yesterday (27.01) and, consequently, also our avalanche conditions. Most of the precipitation is anticipated in the western, also in the northern regions of North Tirol. ZAMG Weather Service forecasts 40-60 cm…
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Tense avalanche situation for winter sports enthusiasts. Avalanche analysis and outlook.
First things first: the delicate, treacherous avalanche situation will persist for winter sports enthusiasts. So we continue to advise: high restraint in outlying terrain! Numerous reports from winter sports enthusiasts, ardent snowpack examinations and meticulous accident analysis all confirm, unfortunately, that the avalanche situation for winter sports enthusiasts remains very tense. Making things worse, the…
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Extremely trigger-sensitive snowpack = extreme restraint necessary in outlying terrain in next few days! Growing risks for endangered transportation routes in western regions.
Alarm bells of nature: naturally triggered slab avalanches, settling noises, fracture cracks, remote triggerings! From all corners of Tirol, a great many reports of an unusually trigger-sensitive snowpack came in today, 14 January. Settling noises, fracture cracks and (remote) triggerings of slab avalanches unrolled regularly in flat-to-moderately steep terrain. Artificial triggerings with explosives succeeded over…
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Dangerous conditions for winter sports enthusiasts. A skiers “high” !
Highly trigger-sensitive snowpack. Danger conditions for winter sports enthusiasts, with high risk of accidents. For that reason, please: exercise high restraint in the next few days!!! The swift rise in avalanche danger referred to in the last blog has now occurred. Reports from our observers and from winter sports enthusiasts confirm the very high trigger-sensitivity of…
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Snowfall following long cold snap – a dangerous situation
An abrupt end to a highly favourable avalanche situation Right at the start an important message for all winter sports enthusiasts: as a result of the forecast snowfall between today, 12 January and Thursday, 14 January, including wind impact, avalanche danger levels will increase very swiftly. This is especially because of the effects the long period…
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Caution in southern regions: weak near-surface layers
Most of the current avalanche prone locations: in East Tirol and south of Gurgler Group Snowpack analysis and reports from observers confirm that slab avalanches can currently be triggered by winter sports enthusiasts in near-surface layers above all else. Near-surface weak layer, east-facing slope at 2450 m in Villgratental. Avalanche accident Pürglers Kunke on 06.02.2021…
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New snow in south. Newly delicate avalanche situation for backcountry skiers. Anew: great restraint called for!
Treacherous situation for winter sports enthusiasts in East Tirol. Snowpack is highly prone to triggering! In East Tirol there is a situation similar to that of 28 December when snowfall and strong winds were forecast to strike the southern regions. Accordingly, an avalanche situation which is already delicate is being ratcheted up another degree. It’s clear…
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Regionally delicate situation for winter sports enthusiasts. In southern East Tirol, HIGH danger for backcountry skiers.
Avalanche releases, fractures, settling noises: clear signals of alarm. Fresh snowdrifts in steep terrain need to be circumvented. Our prior assessment of a delicate situation regionally for winter sports enthusiasts was confirmed today, 29.12. We received repeated reports of mostly medium-sized, in isolated cases also large-sized naturally triggered avalanches. In addition, slab avalanches were triggered…