Mount Snežnik (1796m a.s.l.) Photographed from the Bloke Plateau Early in the Morning, Internal Karst Region/Notranjska, South-Western Slovenia
01-september-2019: here I am on the little road leading to Studeno Na Blokah (783m a.s.l.) and Radlek from Nova Vas, then on the reliefs that close to the south the Bloke plateau, giving on areas at lower altitudes (between Loška Dolina and Cerkniško Polje), thus managing to clearly distinguish the highest and most intriguing peak of the Karst-Dinaric Slovenia.
The Bloke plateau, sub-alpine climate/local continental micro-climate, is in the North-East of the Karst Region, Northern of Loška dolina and Babno Polje, it develops at an (average: 745m) altitude between 650 and 955m a.s.l. and is characterized by vast flat areas alternating with soft reliefs with small basins and valleys, each of these, during clear and windless nights, develops a strong thermal inversion.
The loss of soil heat towards the space generates a decisive thermal drop, starting from sunset ending at sunrise, which cold air (dense and heavy) slides downwards (as water would do), filling the basins, valleys and lowlands areas closed by reliefs on the margins.
The decrease in temperature is closely connected with the increase in humidity up to the saturation of the air water vapor with condensation in stratified/layered fog, low fog (30cm-300cm) and small local fog banks concentrated in the areas with thermal inversion.
The Bloke is characterized by numerous small basins, each of which, in these cases, has its "personal fog bank", as we see in this shot.
Mount Snežnik (1796m a.s.l.) Photographed from the Bloke Plateau Early in the Morning, Internal Karst Region/Notranjska, South-Western Slovenia
01-september-2019: here I am on the little road leading to Studeno Na Blokah (783m a.s.l.) and Radlek from Nova Vas, then on the reliefs that close to the south the Bloke plateau, giving on areas at lower altitudes (between Loška Dolina and Cerkniško Polje), thus managing to clearly distinguish the highest and most intriguing peak of the Karst-Dinaric Slovenia.
The Bloke plateau, sub-alpine climate/local continental micro-climate, is in the North-East of the Karst Region, Northern of Loška dolina and Babno Polje, it develops at an (average: 745m) altitude between 650 and 955m a.s.l. and is characterized by vast flat areas alternating with soft reliefs with small basins and valleys, each of these, during clear and windless nights, develops a strong thermal inversion.
The loss of soil heat towards the space generates a decisive thermal drop, starting from sunset ending at sunrise, which cold air (dense and heavy) slides downwards (as water would do), filling the basins, valleys and lowlands areas closed by reliefs on the margins.
The decrease in temperature is closely connected with the increase in humidity up to the saturation of the air water vapor with condensation in stratified/layered fog, low fog (30cm-300cm) and small local fog banks concentrated in the areas with thermal inversion.
The Bloke is characterized by numerous small basins, each of which, in these cases, has its "personal fog bank", as we see in this shot.