Weather In Slovenia

[strauch67]

Hi there! Itzok, I do not know if you know your corregional Marko Korosek (crazy slovenian), I found the attached reportage amazing. I was too on the area coming back from Rakov Skozian. Look at this...

http://forum.meteonetwork.it/showthread.php?t=30943

Nasvidanje. Ciao

[Iztok Sinjur]

I do not know if you know your corregional Marko Korosek (crazy slovenian),

Hello,

O, I know him very well He wrote a lot about this chase in Italy. Photos are realy good.

In Slovenia we have quite mild temperatures (only in the last 3 days T reached +28°C) and after rainy and unstable weather in the first part of August, now persisting more sunny weather. An average temperature is until now during this August arround +18°C. In my station only in August 190 mm of rain (~40% over August average 1995-2005).

Last weekend we had another expedition on the Komna plateau (1500m a.s.l.) We´re preparing our instruments for the next winter time and high snow coverage.

View on the sky before front (Saturday, 19.8.06)

Tmin in one of the coldest measuring place (we measured a record low T there -41,7°C) was during the last 40 days eaven eleven times under 0°C. The lowest temperature was -4,7°C and the highest +28,3°C (those were the days at the end of hot July).

[parmenides3]

Hello again. Great cloud photo; does that type have a name?

Don't mention snow...

P

[Iztok Sinjur]

Hello again. Great cloud photo; does that type have a name?

Don't mention snow...

P

:blush: I don`t know its name but around were Ac, Cc and Cs (typical before cold front pasage)

Ha,ha "Don't mention snow"... We had a fresh snow in the first decade, but over 2100m a.s.l. At the level 850hPa is now between +12 and +14 C. In the last weekend was eaven +18.

O, this is yesterday storm You can see my home town Grosuplje south from precipitation mark We had only a few gusts with 8m/s (N wind). Some hail storms were in Pomurje region (NE part).

This morning is cloudy with local showers and T +17°C.

[Iztok Sinjur]

In July we set up the research plot in one sinkhole (sinkhole="mrazišče") named Luknja at 1430 m a.s.l. (it is 100m deep and has sky view factor 0,6)

We tested our home made radiation shield. :blush:

The test results you can see at My Webpage

[strauch67]

Short video of the yesterday TS in Venice. Great cell

http://video.libero.it/app/play/index.html...3eed6388445749f

This was taken from Vittorio Veneto, 50 km from Venice.

Ciao

[*Stormforce~beka*]

Short video of the yesterday TS in Venice. Great cell

http://video.libero.it/app/play/index.html...3eed6388445749f

This was taken from Vittorio Veneto, 50 km from Venice.

Ciao

My goodness!! Aboslutely beautiful! one of the best i've seen fora while. I went to Venice from Rovign when I was last in Croatia for a dat. Lovely place. Make sure you save me some storms for next week!!

[strauch67]

My goodness!! Aboslutely beautiful! one of the best i've seen fora while. I went to Venice from Rovign when I was last in Croatia for a dat. Lovely place. Make sure you save me some storms for next week!!

Another great storm this morning

http://magazine.enel.it/meteo/img/v_meteoi.../bis/ita-14.jpg

radar (unfortunally I could save only this one, after the peak)

http://www.arpa.emr.it/smr/datiiningresso/...ar/comp_b4n.png

Are you coming in Venice? Monday there is an interesting situation for good storms.

Ciao

[Iztok Sinjur]

We had a lot of work in the last month and results are here

Presentation about our measurements on the 6th European conference on applied climatology in Ljubljana, September 2006

1. About Extreme temperature minimums:http://www.freewebs.com/iztokico/Minimums_SINJUR, OGRIN_ECAC06.pdf

2. About Water equivalent of snow cover 1 Mb

(from my website)

Weather in Slovenia is warm and sunny - maximum day temperatures are between +22 and 24°C (past week eaven +29°C and +31°C in the E and coastal region of Slo). The real summer after chilly and wet August with 2K below average.

In some karst dolines we already had a frost -> one report is on My Webpage

Edited September 12, 2006 by Iztok Sinjur

[senior ridge]

Short video of the yesterday TS in Venice. Great cell

http://video.libero.it/app/play/index.html...3eed6388445749f

This was taken from Vittorio Veneto, 50 km from Venice.

Ciao

Grazie per il video

Ciao

[Iztok Sinjur]

Only a short report about yesterday heavy precipitation in the central part of Slovenia.

In the afternoon from SE heavy showers and storms started to spread towards Ljubljana region.

After a few cloudy and warm days with frequent rain , yesterdays afternoon was realy spectacular conclusion At 7pm (17UTC) heavy rain reached Grosuplje. The maximum precipitation intensity was eaven 301mm/h! In less than 15min we get 27mm/m2. The storm total is more than 80mm.

In Ljubljana many uderpasses were flooded (60mm in only 6h)

This is only a few minutes before shower. The sky became dark like in the night

Edited September 18, 2006 by Iztok Sinjur

[Iztok Sinjur]

We are in autumn now and weather in the mountains was the same a few days ago. We were on the Komna plateau during Friday and Saturday(September 22, 23)

This is view to Krošnja sinkhole (1450 m a.s.l.)

leaf with pearls

This is the lowest temperatures between August 19 and September 23.

Tmin in °C (September 11,2006)

Krošnja -9,9

Luknja-8

Mrzla Komna -9,8

Pl.Poljanica -9,4

Pl.Govnjač -9,4

Pl.Ovčarija -6,6

[Iztok Sinjur]

September 2006 was unusually warm and sunny in Slovenia! Average temperature in some parts was eaven the same as in August. It existed about +16 or +17 °C (in lower parts).

I recorded 1,2 K higher daily Tmax than in August (+23,4°C) in my town. The highest temperature was +29 °C, which is higher then in August too.

We had only 5 days with rain - total precipitation amount 96 mm (65% of average).

In the mountains the September was significantly warmer than August - Kredarica observatory (2515m a.s.l.). Average temperature was 3 °C higher!

Edited October 2, 2006 by Iztok Sinjur

[Iztok Sinjur]

We have the first frost this autumn. After a clear and calm night temperatures in many parts reached 0°C or lower -> http://www.arso.gov.si/podro~cja/vreme_in_.../vreme_avt.html

First decade of October was sunny, warm and dry - average temperature was around +14 to +15°C which is a few degrees too high.

Edited October 17, 2006 by Iztok Sinjur

[Iztok Sinjur]

After the warm and sunny October (average month T was ~2 to 3°C over normal - look my web site), November start with cold and first snow cover in some parts.

Cold air mass in higher levels came just over the night. Temperature at 2500m a.s.l. dropped from +7 to -15°C in less than one day. A few days before that my colleague on Kredarica meteorological station (2515m) measured very strong foehn- NW wind. Max. gust was over 170 km/h!

Photo: J. Ortar

In November 3 after local snow showers some parts in Gorenjska, Koroška and Štajerska region get the first day with snow cover this winter. Morning temperatures were quite low.

The lowest temperature on my station was -6,2 °C (November 3).

In some cold parts where cold air pool form frequently temperatures reached -17 °C.

Edited November 6, 2006 by Iztok Sinjur

[Iztok Sinjur]

Well, we are in the second part of November but the weather is still very mild and averages are unusual.

September and October was warmer than in average and the first half of November almost normal (but this is because of lower morning temperatures). Precipitation amount until now this autumn is very low and we can talk about one of the driest autumn ever.

Special conditions are in the mountains where September and October was warmer than August!

Here are some charts about October average day temperatures deviation from average 1961-90

http://www.arso.gov.si/podro~cja/vreme_in_...je/zanimivosti/

You shoud pay attention on Kredarica station - it is at 2515m a.s.l.

Channel near my town is without of water almost two weeks.

Edited November 17, 2006 by Iztok Sinjur

[strauch67]

Well, we are in the second part of November but the weather is still very mild and averages are unusual.

September and October was warmer than in average and the first half of November almost normal (but this is because of lower morning temperatures). Precipitation amount until now this autumn is very low and we can talk about one of the driest autumn ever.

Special conditions are in the mountains where September and October was warmer than August!

Here are some charts about October average day temperatures deviation from average 1961-90

http://www.arso.gov.si/podro~cja/vreme_in_...je/zanimivosti/

You shoud pay attention on Kredarica station - it is at 2515m a.s.l.

Channel near my town is without of water almost two weeks.

Thanks Iztok. Same (bad) situation here. Mountains absolutly dry, without any sign of snow at any level. Warmer and drier as well in NE Italy. Thanks for your dates, I will post them in our meteo forum as well are interesting for our statistics.

Ciao

[strauch67]

Thanks Iztok. Same (bad) situation here. Mountains absolutly dry, without any sign of snow at any level. Warmer and drier as well in NE Italy. Thanks for your dates, I will post them in our meteo forum as well are interesting for our statistics.

Ciao

Pics took the 12 November at 2200 mt in Passo Giau (Dolomites). The only "white" you can see is the Marmolada glacier. Only few snow flakes given by the front coming from north:

Pics took the 12 November at 2200 mt in Passo Giau (Dolomites). The only "white" you can see is the Marmolada glacier. Only few snow flakes given by the front coming from north:

other one

[strauch67]

Heavy rain on the border between NE Italy and Slovenia. This "thanks" due a weak sistem that found its way blocked by the Friuli Alps.

[Iztok Sinjur]

Warm and dry weather is still prevailing! It seems that we are still in October because average day temperatures range between +6 and +10°C. November was around 4°C over average! More details about November this year and in the last year are on my site My Webpage

This autumn was something special. In many meteorological stations reached record values.

This graph present average autumn temperatures in Ljubljana. Source: http://www.arso.gov.si/podro~cja/vreme_in_...je/zanimivosti/

Autumn precipitation amount existed only about 1/2 of normals. This years total is almost the same like in 2003.

On the highest Slovenian meteo. station Kredarica (2515m) registering first days without of snow in December until now.

Because of high averages and many sunny hours some plants form flowers and eaven preparing for burst into leaf

In the last few days a big part of central and western Slovenia had a low cloudiness. Its upper level was between 900 and 1300m a.s.

In spite of all that in the sinkholes temperatures reach quite low values

Here is one graph for sinkhole on the Pokljuka alpine plateau (~1300m a.s.l.)

Edited December 4, 2006 by Iztok Sinjur

[Iztok Sinjur]

Record warm first decade of December in Slovenia.

Average day temperatures ware eaven more than 10K over normal.

Source:

http://www.arso.gov.si/podro~cja/vreme_in_...je/zanimivosti/

Because of that, many plats begining to flower.

After cold front passage temperatures turn to more normal now. Mountains at about 1700m has 30-70 cm fresh snow.

We have low cloudiness and arround +7°C.

[jethro]

Don't want to be picky but that's a photo of Viburnum x bodnantense - a winter flowering shrub, flowering right on cue.

[Iztok Sinjur]

Don't want to be picky but that's a photo of Viburnum x bodnantense - a winter flowering shrub, flowering right on cue.

Thank you for comment about flowering. I didn't know species name of this shrub , but Viburnums in Slovenia usually (our autochthon species are Viburnum lantana and Viburnum opulus) don't flower at this time . It is the first time to see flowering that shrub in December. Usually we have snow and Tmin arround -5 to -10°C, so stagnation of vegetation prevail because of low temperatures (hormonal stagnation ended in the last days).

I have another photos

Prunus laurocerasus

Centaurea montana

[jethro]

The Centaurea is nothing to worry about, they'll keep on flowering until the frost stops them, although in your part of the world I guess that should have happened a while ago. More worrying is the Laurel, that's obviously very, very confused by the weather; it should flower in April. On the plus side, it will provide much needed food for any late flying bees.

[Iztok Sinjur]

Some latest temperatures data and photos from sinkholes Velika Padežnica (1127 m) and Vala (1114 m) you can see at my web page

In spite of record warm autumn Tmin from October 10 to December 9 reached -16°C.