Lago Superiore di Fusine, 929m a.s.l.; Fusine Upper Lake; Western Julian Alps, Udine, FVG, Italia
23-June-2019: In the background the massif of mount Mangart (2677m a.s.l.).
The glacial valley that hosts Fusine Lakes is located to the left of the Val Romana, where there's the shady and icy village of Fusine (847m a.s.l.; in January 1985 the temperature dropped to -33°C), which is at its once a valley on the left side of the long Val Canale.
The whole area is subject to strong thermal inversions that in winter can last for the whole day and for many consecutive days in anticyclonic conditions; the presence of spruces around the Fusine lakes and in most of the contiguous region called "Tarvisiano" clearly indicates the presence of thermal inversion being trees that love shade, moist and cold soils.
At the base of this phenomenon there is precisely the shadow, which affects all these areas for several months a year, between autumn and winter, due to the presence in the south of the steep North Faces of the main mountains (often characterized by long overlapping dorsals) of the Julian Alps, capable of hiding completely the low sun of the winter months.
Lago Superiore di Fusine, 929m a.s.l.; Fusine Upper Lake; Western Julian Alps, Udine, FVG, Italia
23-June-2019: In the background the massif of mount Mangart (2677m a.s.l.).
The glacial valley that hosts Fusine Lakes is located to the left of the Val Romana, where there's the shady and icy village of Fusine (847m a.s.l.; in January 1985 the temperature dropped to -33°C), which is at its once a valley on the left side of the long Val Canale.
The whole area is subject to strong thermal inversions that in winter can last for the whole day and for many consecutive days in anticyclonic conditions; the presence of spruces around the Fusine lakes and in most of the contiguous region called "Tarvisiano" clearly indicates the presence of thermal inversion being trees that love shade, moist and cold soils.
At the base of this phenomenon there is precisely the shadow, which affects all these areas for several months a year, between autumn and winter, due to the presence in the south of the steep North Faces of the main mountains (often characterized by long overlapping dorsals) of the Julian Alps, capable of hiding completely the low sun of the winter months.