Skalnaté pleso (1751m) is a lake located in the

High Tatras The High Tatras or High Tatra Mountains (; ; ,'' Vysoki Tatry''; ; ), are a mountain range along the border of northern Slovakia in the Prešov Region, and southern Poland in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. They are a range of the Tatra Mountains ...

mountains in the north of

Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...

. The highest wind speed ever recorded in

was recorded here on 29 November 1965, when a wind with the speed of 78,6 m/s (283 km/h) was recorded. In November 2021, there was a rare occurrence, as Pleso dried out entirely. This was the result of a dry period, as it is filled solely by precipitation, and continued evaporation. The lake has refilled since. In the dry season, the lake is without water because the impermeable bedrock was disturbed during the construction of the cable car. The Skalnatý Brook flows through the lake, but in the dry season it dries up and appears in the valley below the lake.

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Lakes of Slovakia {{Slovakia-stub