Západné Tatry

The weather during Thursday will continue to be influenced by cool moist air flowing from the northwest along the back side of the pressure low. This will bring cloudy, overcast weather with snow showers, which will be of a snowy nature from the mid-latitudes onwards. Low avalanche danger in the western and eastern part of the Low Tatras. Snow cover is present at the highest altitudes. Due to strong winds and new snowfalls, the main avalanche problem is wind-blown snow. Especially dangerous are the leeward sides of the highest ridges, narrow leeward couloirs on the S, SE and E orientations. In these places it is possible to find locally wind-blown slabs of different hardness. They can be loosened especially on very steep slopes under high additional loads. Spontaneous avalanches are not expected.

The weather of the last few days (cooling down after an exceptionally warm period) has caused the old snow cover to freeze. The surface of the snow cover is hard to icy in many places. Strong winds combined with snowfall have caused very uneven snow distribution in the mountains. The windward sides of the mountains are hard and icy, with slabs of wind-blown snow on the leeward sides of the highest altitudes (SE, SW, SE and E). Most snow is found in northeast to east orientations. Continuous snow cover is found above 1600 m above sea level.

Persistent Compiled by : Martin Buliak