Západné Tatry

Moderate avalanche danger is concentrated in the highest altitudes of the Tatra mountains. Dangerous places are windward (SE, E and SW) high mountain gullies and terrain depressions, where strong wind blows the last remnants of loose snow from the previous snowfall. In such places it is possible to release less stable snow slabs and snow drifts of smaller dimensions, especially after large additional loads. At lower and middle altitudes spontaneous small avalanches and sluffs of wet snow may occur.

In general, the snow cover is well stabilized, its surface is mostly hard to icy in the morning. During the day, the snow will become slushy and less cohesive in the middle and lower elevations due to warming. Dry and loose snow is found only in the highest parts of the Tatra Mountains and is unevenly distributed due to the wind. Most of it is wind blown to a hard to icy base.

Mostly persistent, only slightly rising during the day