Babno Polje, Internal Karst Region, Slovenija
18-february-2018: Babno is a village located in the innermost part of the Karst Region, North-East of Mount Snežnik (1796m a.s.l., Karst top summit) and 1km from the border with Croatia's northernmost "Mountain-Kvarner Region" (Prežid, HR).
it is located on the edge of a wide meadow basin (completely open air: "Sky View Factor"), at 748m above sea level, characterized by karstic-calcareous soil. The porous soil avoids the stagnation of humidity, making the temperature excursions very rapid and sharp with clear skies and no winds.
These factors make it the inhabited place with the coldest nights in the whole of Slovenia and among the coldest in all of Europe.
In fact, there are minimum temperatures of -30°C in all winter months, including March, and an absolute peak of -34.5°C (official ARSO station according to WMO).
Being also positioned halfway between the Kvarner Gulf and Trieste one (about 60 linear km) and near the "Snowy mount", it has a good rainfall and therefore a rather marked and prolonged snowiness.
The below zero minimum temperatures are possibly in all months of the year (!), very rarely only in July and August.
Karst-slovenian people call this polje the "Slovenska Siberija".
Babno Polje, Internal Karst Region, Slovenija
18-february-2018: Babno is a village located in the innermost part of the Karst Region, North-East of Mount Snežnik (1796m a.s.l., Karst top summit) and 1km from the border with Croatia's northernmost "Mountain-Kvarner Region" (Prežid, HR).
it is located on the edge of a wide meadow basin (completely open air: "Sky View Factor"), at 748m above sea level, characterized by karstic-calcareous soil. The porous soil avoids the stagnation of humidity, making the temperature excursions very rapid and sharp with clear skies and no winds.
These factors make it the inhabited place with the coldest nights in the whole of Slovenia and among the coldest in all of Europe.
In fact, there are minimum temperatures of -30°C in all winter months, including March, and an absolute peak of -34.5°C (official ARSO station according to WMO).
Being also positioned halfway between the Kvarner Gulf and Trieste one (about 60 linear km) and near the "Snowy mount", it has a good rainfall and therefore a rather marked and prolonged snowiness.
The below zero minimum temperatures are possibly in all months of the year (!), very rarely only in July and August.
Karst-slovenian people call this polje the "Slovenska Siberija".