Liptovský Hrádok December 24 (TASR) – Mild avalanche danger, the second stage of the five-part international level, applies on Friday in all Slovak mountains. During the last period of snowfall, more than half a meter of snow fell in the High, Western Tatras and Mala Fatra. Anton Sedlák from the Avalanche Prevention Center of the Mountain Rescue Service informed about it.

“Strong winds constantly transfer snow to the leewardly oriented slopes and are distributed very unevenly. Dangerous are high gutters, mounds and saddles, where a large amount of snow is blown on a hard surface in the form of snow boards and pillows,” Sedlák approached with the idea that in all these places it is possible to release the avalanche at a large additional load.

In the middle positions, warming helps to stabilize the snow cover. According to Sedlák, there is a critical layer of hail at the border of the old and wind-covered snow. “Inside the snow cover, unstable layers of angular-grained snow form due to correspondingly large differences,” he added.

In all the mountains is affected by the warm front, the temperature in the highest positions reaches a maximum of six degrees Celsius. The west to southwest wind blows at gusts up to 20 meters per second.