Mount Cavallo (2251m a.s.l.) and Pordenone Plain/Foothills, Where the Soil Has Already Been Turned for the First Sowing; Western Friuli-VG, Italia
18-April-2022: despite the now recurring acute-dry phases, the water to irrigate the fields will not be lacking... At least for the moment.
The area is however quite rainy, between 1300/1400mm/year of the high plain to 2700mm of Piancavallo Plateau, the only pre-alpine ski resort in Friuli, sheltered by the first grassy mountain ridge in the background and at the foot of Monte Cavallo which is immediately beyond the nearby border with Veneto and is part of the Belluno Pre-Alps/Left Piave Dolomites.
Here it rains especially in autumn with the frequent presence of currents from the South at high altitude and South/East in the lower layers, directly from the Adriatic Sea, which, loaded with a lot of humidity, collide with the mountain range in the photo, which takes off directly from the Pordenone Plain, slowing down and exacerbating the intensity and continuity of rainfalls.
On the Piancavallo plateau, peaks of 700mm were reached in 24h (!!!), especially between October and November.
The aquifers therefore, in one way or another, for the moment, receive water.
So, the main problem of drought in Friuli (and in the rest of my photographic area) are not the sources of drinking and for agriculture water, but the wild flora and fauna that are not used to being without water for months, with an impoverished and increasingly overheated soil.
Mount Cavallo (2251m a.s.l.) and Pordenone Plain/Foothills, Where the Soil Has Already Been Turned for the First Sowing; Western Friuli-VG, Italia
18-April-2022: despite the now recurring acute-dry phases, the water to irrigate the fields will not be lacking... At least for the moment.
The area is however quite rainy, between 1300/1400mm/year of the high plain to 2700mm of Piancavallo Plateau, the only pre-alpine ski resort in Friuli, sheltered by the first grassy mountain ridge in the background and at the foot of Monte Cavallo which is immediately beyond the nearby border with Veneto and is part of the Belluno Pre-Alps/Left Piave Dolomites.
Here it rains especially in autumn with the frequent presence of currents from the South at high altitude and South/East in the lower layers, directly from the Adriatic Sea, which, loaded with a lot of humidity, collide with the mountain range in the photo, which takes off directly from the Pordenone Plain, slowing down and exacerbating the intensity and continuity of rainfalls.
On the Piancavallo plateau, peaks of 700mm were reached in 24h (!!!), especially between October and November.
The aquifers therefore, in one way or another, for the moment, receive water.
So, the main problem of drought in Friuli (and in the rest of my photographic area) are not the sources of drinking and for agriculture water, but the wild flora and fauna that are not used to being without water for months, with an impoverished and increasingly overheated soil.