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Zavižan is the area consisting of a group of peaks surrounding a plateau on the Velebit mountain range in Croatia. The locality is part of the Northern Velebit National Park.

The peaks in the Zavižan group are Zavižan or Veliki Zavižan (1676 m elevation), Vučjak (1644 m), Zavižanska Kosa (1620 m) and Balinovac (1601 m). Zavižan also hosts the eponymous hut and weather station.

Climate
Located at 1594 m ASL on the plateau south of the Vučjak peak, Zavižan has the highest-altitude staffed weather station in Croatia. It has been operated continuously since 1 October 1953. The station has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc) with a mean annual temperature of 3.3 C, seeing the lowest temperature averages, strongest winds, most snowfall and most fog days among Croatian weather stations. The warmest month is July with a daily mean of 12.2 C, while February, the coldest month, sees a mean of -4.3 C. July and August are the only months reliably averaging over 10 C.

Snowfall is heavy in winter; snow falls and blizzards occur nearly every day during the winter months. The snowy season typically lasts from the middle of the October to late May, although snow can fall in any month of the year, and the karst topography of Velebit provides for snow holes, crevasses where snow lingers through the summer, sheltered from direct sunlight. The most snow accumulation typically occurs in February and March, where the average depth is 130 cm. March 1984 saw the deepest snow cover on record in Zavižan at 320 cm, while a snow drift was recorded at 15 m the following year.

Temperature does not rise above freezing on average 73 days per year, while 29 days see temperatures under -10 C. The record minimum was -28.6 C in 1956. Because of temperature inversion, during extreme cold snaps lowlands in Croatia are prone to lower temperatures than highlands; nearby Gospić at 656 m ASL has experienced -33.5 C. However, the winter cold on Velebit is exacerbated by strong bora winds which can reach 150 km/h.

Between 1961 and 1990 only six days exceeded 25 C.

To do

 * http://www.np-sjeverni-velebit.hr/posjeti/lokaliteti/zavizan/?lang=en
 * https://www.hps.hr/info/planinarske-kuce/planinarski-dom-zavizan/
 * https://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/meteoroloska-postaja-zavizan-sutra-obiljezava-50-obljetnicu/161879.aspx
 * https://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/monografija-o-zavizanu-i-50-godina-njegove-meteoroloske-postaje/165036.aspx
 * http://www.novilist.hr/Vijesti/Hrvatska/Jedini-stanar-doma-na-Zavizanu-Ante-Vukusic-Kad-puse-150-na-sat-minus-19-je-kao-minus-50-stupnjeva
 * http://klima.hr/razno/zanimljivosti/zavizan_50g.pdf
 * https://www.24sata.hr/news/na-zavizanu-sam-ponekad-zivio-kao-da-je-kameno-doba-559194
 * https://www.vecernji.hr/gospodar-oluja-plasi-se-gromova-801816
 * https://croatia.hr/hr-HR/dozivljaji/aktivni-odmor/setanje-i-planinarenje/sjeverni-velebit
 * https://www.gloria.hr/zivot/putovanja/prijedlog-putovanja-s-mora-na-planinu-popnite-se-na-zavizan/9031013/
 * https://www.hrt.hr/325321/vrijeme-i-promet/od-1953-na-1594-samo-jedna-ali-vrijedna
 * https://www.jutarnji.hr/life/zivotne-price/neustrasiva-licanka-bez-kacige-sjekire-i-pile-ne-ide-na-velebit/4546385/
 * https://zadarski.slobodnadalmacija.hr/regional/clanak/id/445696/upoznajte-glavnu-rendzericu-np-sjeverni-velebit-ljiljana-ne-poznaje-strah-ni-od-zmija-niti-od-medvjeda-vukova-divljih-macaka
 * https://www.express.hr/znanost/prognoza-ljeto-2018-bit-ce-nam-pakleno-kao-i-proslo-16383

Category:Karst plateaus Category:Meteorological stations Category:Dinaric Alps Category:Lika Category:Landforms of Lika-Senj County