The Completely Open Sky Basin/Plain of Metulje, Located in the South-East of the Bloke Karstic Plateau on Internal Karst Region/Notranjska, South-Western Slovenija
02-september-2021: the (meteorologically) early fall sun quickly dissolves the nocturnal filmy fogs and leaves full view of this largely flat basin located at 717m of altitude above sea level.
The conformation of this area favors massive night-time thermal inversions with clear skies and calm winds.
Under these weather conditions, the lowest night temperatures in all of Slovenia are often found here or in nearby Babno Polje basin, and this applies throughout the calendar year.
Last spring, in the contiguous town of Nova Vas-Bloke (719m a.s.l., ARSO official weather station), on 7 April 2021 at down, there were 21°C below zero, the lowest value ever recorded in all of Slovenia for the month of April, in 70 years of measurements.
On that occasion the basin was covered with fresh snow and hoar frost/hard rime with albedo close to 1 or total reflectance.
Minimum temperatures close to 0°C are possible, although rare, even in the heart of summer, while in winter it, relatively often, dropped to around -30°C.
The Completely Open Sky Basin/Plain of Metulje, Located in the South-East of the Bloke Karstic Plateau on Internal Karst Region/Notranjska, South-Western Slovenija
02-september-2021: the (meteorologically) early fall sun quickly dissolves the nocturnal filmy fogs and leaves full view of this largely flat basin located at 717m of altitude above sea level.
The conformation of this area favors massive night-time thermal inversions with clear skies and calm winds.
Under these weather conditions, the lowest night temperatures in all of Slovenia are often found here or in nearby Babno Polje basin, and this applies throughout the calendar year.
Last spring, in the contiguous town of Nova Vas-Bloke (719m a.s.l., ARSO official weather station), on 7 April 2021 at down, there were 21°C below zero, the lowest value ever recorded in all of Slovenia for the month of April, in 70 years of measurements.
On that occasion the basin was covered with fresh snow and hoar frost/hard rime with albedo close to 1 or total reflectance.
Minimum temperatures close to 0°C are possible, although rare, even in the heart of summer, while in winter it, relatively often, dropped to around -30°C.