“Overnight on the ridges of the Jeseníky Mountains according to measuring snow -meter pillows added around 10 cm new snow. Temperatures, as well as on the ridges of the Beskydy Mountains or the Giant Mountains (where the snow also lies), slightly below zero, ”said the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute on Facebook.

“We are currently raining especially in the south and southwest of Bohemia, but during the day they will be in variable clouds of showers again more frequent in the rest of the territory. The snowfall boundary will continue to be around 1100 m nm in the above -mentioned mountains, ”says meteorologists.

“The weather today will be typically ′ april’s ′ with variable clouds, Slightly more pronounced wind and here and there with showers. We will measure, like yesterday, around 14 degrees, in the north of Moravia, East Bohemia and Silesia, however, only around 11, ”adds CHMI.

On the ridges of the Giant Mountains with the arrival of the cold front with breaks it has been snowing from Thursday. “Winter has returned. There was a lot of fresh snow in higher altitudes. The trails are covered with snow, in places icy, visibility is limited,” It was stated on Facebook Krkonoše Mountain Rescue Service. She advised tourists to go to the mountains only in warm clothes and with winter equipment.

It has been raining in the lower mountain resorts from the lower mountain resorts since Thursday. For example In Špindlerův Mlýn over the past 24 hours, 13 liters of water raised per square meter. Since Thursday in the center, about 40 lists of water fell per square meter, resulting from data from the Elbe River Basin.

May snowfall is not exceptional in the Giant Mountains. For example, at the beginning of May 2021, about a quarter of a meter of snow attacked on the ridges of the mountains. A year earlier, the cold front 12. 2020 brought about 15 centimeters of snow to the mountains.

Cable car to Sněžka out of order

The wind on Sněžka was in impacts up to 80 kilometers per hour this morning. The cable car can go to wind speed 60 kilometers per hour. The section from Pec pod Sněžkou to Pink Mountain remained in operation. If the wind was weakening, the cable car could start in the afternoon in the afternoon, Jiří Špetla, head of the cable car operation, told CTK.

Outside the service was the upper section of the cable car on SaturdayWhen the wind was almost 133 kilometers per hour in Sněžka. He overcame the border of the Orcan, which is 117.7 kilometers per hour.

The temperature at 1603 meters high Sněžka was about four degrees below below the freezing point this morningit results from data measuring station Poštovny Anežka. The feeling temperature was around minus 12 degrees due to strong winds. On the ridge Luční bouda at 1415 meters above sea level, the wind was significantly weaker this morning, reaching speeds up to 50 kilometers per hour. The temperature on Luční bouda was one degree below zero in the morning.

The operation of other cable cars in the Giant Mountains did not limit the wind. Today, people can also reach the ridges in the eastern Giant Mountains with cable cars from Janské Lázně to Černá Hora, from Velké Úpa to Portášky and from Špindlerův Mlýn to Medvědín.