Category: Winter review

Mid-September – powerful burst of winter, high glacier activity September had heavy precipitation throughout Austria, in western regions more than at any time in measurement history. At mid-month in the mountains, winter arrived early with locally up to 150cm of fresh fallen snow atop the warm ground. This led to heightened gliding snow and loose-snow…

Last winter (in bullet points) Snapshots of winter in chronological order Start: intensive precipitation Repeated rainfall up to the heights Warm period as of Xmas holidays Highly trigger-sensitive drifts in mid-January Near-surface persistent weak layer problem briefly on sunny slopes Firn snow in deep winter And yet, snowfall for East Tirol Graupel as relevant weak…