Avalanche forecast

Západné Tatry

HZS
View on map

Avalanche danger

All elevations
1 · Low
Open full map
Out of date — this forecast expired 8 months ago. You’re viewing past conditions, not the current bulletin.

Highlights

Inversion causes warm weather even at the highest elevations, watch out for wet snow.

Avalanche problems

  • Wet snow

    • All elevations
    Size
    1

    Stability: fair · Frequency: few

Avalanche Activity

Inversion causes warm weather even at the highest elevations, watch out for wet snow.

In all mountain ranges where there is still a continuous snow cover (High, Low, Western Tatras) there is a low avalanche danger. The snow cover has stabilised due to temperature changes. Due to the inversion, high temperatures persist even at the highest altitudes, causing wet snow during the day, but due to cloud cover this problem will not be as pronounced as during the weekend and Monday. Spontaneous wet avalanches from warming temperatures may occur.

Snowpack Structure

The weather development of the last few days caused daytime melting and nighttime freezing of the snow cover. This has resulted in a hard firn and frozen surface of the snow cover, which is stable. It may gradually soften during the day. A continuous snow cover occurs in the Low Tatras from an altitude of about 1200 m and reaches 50 to 80 cm at the highest altitudes. In the Western and High Tatras there is snow from about 1500 m above sea level and its height is only up to 50 cm.

Bulletin data: Stredisko lavínovej prevencie HZS (via EAWS / avalanche.report)

Regions covered