The Main Part of the Chain/Plateau Headed by Mount Canin/Visoki Kanin (2587m a.s.l.) Which Represents the Snowiest Area of the Alps in Terms of Annual Snowfall Amounts; Montasio Pastures, Julian Alps, Udine, Italia
25-may-2021: Canin mountain range is climatologically very important for its marked snowfall (a total of 12-15m per year), the result of a geo-orographic combination that leads this particular area to be the rainiest in the Alps with over 3000l/m2 (or mm) per year, that's a value very close to that of the Julian Pre-Alps, where it reaches 3350mm (or l/m2), which is the second highest European precipitative after the Dinaric reliefs between northern Albania and Montenegro/Црна Гора.
Furthermore, again due to its geographical position and local microclimates, the Canin area is colder, on average, than the rest of the Alps at the same altitude.
Naturally, for the snowfall in the area (comparable, in the Alps, only to that of the major mountains of Styria in Austria) we mean the amount of snow that falls during a calendar year (mainly between October and May) and not the instant snow cover which, at this altitude, it is evidently variable and temporary, being able to melt (minimally) even in the mildest days of winter and melting completely in the second half of the summer.
A few years ago, now at the mercy of Global Warming, its glacier (which no longer has the gravitational movement defines it) became extinct, which, for the reasons mentioned above, was the lowest in all the Alps.
The Main Part of the Chain/Plateau Headed by Mount Canin/Visoki Kanin (2587m a.s.l.) Which Represents the Snowiest Area of the Alps in Terms of Annual Snowfall Amounts; Montasio Pastures, Julian Alps, Udine, Italia
25-may-2021: Canin mountain range is climatologically very important for its marked snowfall (a total of 12-15m per year), the result of a geo-orographic combination that leads this particular area to be the rainiest in the Alps with over 3000l/m2 (or mm) per year, that's a value very close to that of the Julian Pre-Alps, where it reaches 3350mm (or l/m2), which is the second highest European precipitative after the Dinaric reliefs between northern Albania and Montenegro/Црна Гора.
Furthermore, again due to its geographical position and local microclimates, the Canin area is colder, on average, than the rest of the Alps at the same altitude.
Naturally, for the snowfall in the area (comparable, in the Alps, only to that of the major mountains of Styria in Austria) we mean the amount of snow that falls during a calendar year (mainly between October and May) and not the instant snow cover which, at this altitude, it is evidently variable and temporary, being able to melt (minimally) even in the mildest days of winter and melting completely in the second half of the summer.
A few years ago, now at the mercy of Global Warming, its glacier (which no longer has the gravitational movement defines it) became extinct, which, for the reasons mentioned above, was the lowest in all the Alps.