On 2 May 2021 at the Southern Shore of the Pramollo Mountain Pass Lake, at 1528m of Altitude; Carnic Alps, Pontebba (UD), Friuli-VG, Italia
02-may-2021: the marshy lake that fills the basin-peat bog in the center of the saddle between mount Cavallo di Pontebba and mount Auernig, near the border with Austria and whose water flows into the Rio/Creek Bombaso (a tributary on the right of the Fella river), is still mostly frozen, thanks to the abundant snow that covers it since early winter.
The water that composes Lake Pramollo, however, has also underground springs, like the one in the photo, which never freeze as the temperature in the subsoil is always above zero.
The residual winter snow, which covers the ground extensively from an altitude of 1250/1300m a.s.l., here, at 1530m a.s.l. (and in an orographically favorable position for accumulation), has a still important thickness, varying between 70 and 120cm, compressed and compacted by months and months of thermal changes, but, most of all, by the pressure of the snow now melted.
Snow, in fact, accumulates layer by layer and melts away (starting from the end of February, when the white mantle was over 220cm thick) layer by layer backwards, so the remaining snow is also the first fallen, the oldest, to the end of November 2020.
Added to this are now the soft 35-40cm that fell over the day to the object and which will be the first to melt with the first sun.
On 2 May 2021 at the Southern Shore of the Pramollo Mountain Pass Lake, at 1528m of Altitude; Carnic Alps, Pontebba (UD), Friuli-VG, Italia
02-may-2021: the marshy lake that fills the basin-peat bog in the center of the saddle between mount Cavallo di Pontebba and mount Auernig, near the border with Austria and whose water flows into the Rio/Creek Bombaso (a tributary on the right of the Fella river), is still mostly frozen, thanks to the abundant snow that covers it since early winter.
The water that composes Lake Pramollo, however, has also underground springs, like the one in the photo, which never freeze as the temperature in the subsoil is always above zero.
The residual winter snow, which covers the ground extensively from an altitude of 1250/1300m a.s.l., here, at 1530m a.s.l. (and in an orographically favorable position for accumulation), has a still important thickness, varying between 70 and 120cm, compressed and compacted by months and months of thermal changes, but, most of all, by the pressure of the snow now melted.
Snow, in fact, accumulates layer by layer and melts away (starting from the end of February, when the white mantle was over 220cm thick) layer by layer backwards, so the remaining snow is also the first fallen, the oldest, to the end of November 2020.
Added to this are now the soft 35-40cm that fell over the day to the object and which will be the first to melt with the first sun.