Marko Korosec
EF4
Hello all,
I wanted to share a great trip I had on Sunday, I went to Mt. Nanos here in Slovenia to be above the inversion. Hope the lenght of it is not disturbing, but its hard to cut some parts. Living under the low cloudiness blanket for few days is really boring, so I was monitoring sounding from Udine to have an overview over the situation. Pretty strong subsidence in the high pressure ridge over south-central Europe gave me the power to go above the inversion. I was looking over Udine sounding when the best moment for photographing will be. I just had to be careful because SW low-level winds were expected to increase later in the day which will lead into rising of the low cloudiness above 1000m which is not that impressive anymore at Nanos. When I left home at the early afternoon the clouds started at around 600m and when I arrived to Razdrto, visibility was even below 20m! I noticed some blue lights more to the east and near the village Veliko Ubeljsko I came out of the fog, blue skies! There was a small hole in the cloud blanket above. It was made just behind the Nanos where air was flowing around Nanos and also some Föehn effects were present there. Here is the first photo of blue sky after few days...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk6.jpg
I continued towards Nanos then through Rebrnice and Podnanos up towards the top. At about 600 to 800m I was punching though the layer of this low cloudiness blanket and finally its getting brighter above 850m. Temperature is only +4° here. I am almost above it...when I arrived above 900m the view is like in the fairy tale...fantastic feeling being on the sun again! Crystal clear air, visibility more than excelent. Temperature is here +7°. First photo above the blanket...
Fog and low cloudiness all around...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk9.jpg
Julian Alps are almost in front of my nose in this crystal clear air...
Zoom-in directly into Mt. Triglav (2864m)...quite a lot of fresh snow there...
I went a bit higher to around 1000m to get a better angle for shooting. Temperature is here around +11°! A view towards Trnovski gozd...
And more wider view towards Italian Dolomites and Carnic Alps...
Some interesting details of undulating clouds over the Nanos ridges...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk19.jpg
A view towards southwest shows Mt. Slavnik (1028m)...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk23.jpg
Some clouds at the edge of the ridge is making some nice moments...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk25.jpg
And also a young couple enjoying their moments on the sun with heavenly feeling above clouds in the back...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk24.jpg
Almost full Moon rolls in...
But it does not interest me so much, clouds below are just too good. Continuing shooting and enjoying the moments of clouds undulating details...I also put a video camera to record this undulating (there is a video link from youtube at the end)...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk28.jpg
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk30.jpg
One of the last moments on this height before I went up towards the top... a view towards Julian Alps and Trnovski gozd...a lower angle of the sun gives better colors...
From the Nanos top Plesa (1262m) the view down is like in the fairy tale... I am shooting like it is my last day
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk33.jpg
View directly down along the slope...
Towards the southwest some of the mountain tops are showing their heads... Vremscica, Slavnik, Cicarija and Ucka...
A close-up of Vremscica (1027m) with Cicarija (1106m) in the back...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk42.jpg
Slavnik (1028m)...
And Ucka (1401m)...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk43.jpg
Sunset is slowly approaching...colors getting better and better, ridges becoming red...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk39.jpg
On the other side Mt. Sneznik (1796m) getting the sunset colors as well...
Zoom into Mt. Sneznik...also quite a lot of fresh snow from the last snowing few days ago...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk44.jpg
Of course even Julian Alps are enjoying sunset colors...
Zoom view of Mt. Krn (2244m)...
And area around Mt. Kanin (2587m)...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk49.jpg
The Moon is looking good in this clear air...one close-up...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk50.jpg
The Nanos top Plesa in sunset colors with sea of clouds below...
The sun is sinking into the cloud blanket...I was waiting for the last sun ray moment...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk54.jpg
Few minutes after the sunset I noticed anti-crepuscular rays on the opposite side. A city of Postojna under the blanket below...
On this photo the weak Föehn effect behind the Nanos is visible as I was talking in the beginning. Clouds are separated from Nanos and I was able to see the ground for some seconds as well...
A view towards Kamnisko-Savinjske Alps...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk61.jpg
The colors at twilight are supernatural in this crystal clear air...relative humidity was only around 20%...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk66.jpg
This mountain peak is Cimon della Pala (3184m) in the Italian Dolomites. The distance from Nanos is more than 180km away! A good point to show how excelent the air was...
Here is finally the video of my trip, first driving through the poor visibility in Razdrto and penetrating through the cloud blanket into the clear sky at 900m. And then some great animations of undulating low cloudiness around Nanos, also with the sunset at the end. Really impressive movings, wouldn't believe it if I wouldn't make these animations. Incredible!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5wAo2fHiY0
Enjoy the photos and video!
Cheers, Marko
EDIT: some IMG tags changed to URL tags to perform better loading. Just click on those links to see the images.
I wanted to share a great trip I had on Sunday, I went to Mt. Nanos here in Slovenia to be above the inversion. Hope the lenght of it is not disturbing, but its hard to cut some parts. Living under the low cloudiness blanket for few days is really boring, so I was monitoring sounding from Udine to have an overview over the situation. Pretty strong subsidence in the high pressure ridge over south-central Europe gave me the power to go above the inversion. I was looking over Udine sounding when the best moment for photographing will be. I just had to be careful because SW low-level winds were expected to increase later in the day which will lead into rising of the low cloudiness above 1000m which is not that impressive anymore at Nanos. When I left home at the early afternoon the clouds started at around 600m and when I arrived to Razdrto, visibility was even below 20m! I noticed some blue lights more to the east and near the village Veliko Ubeljsko I came out of the fog, blue skies! There was a small hole in the cloud blanket above. It was made just behind the Nanos where air was flowing around Nanos and also some Föehn effects were present there. Here is the first photo of blue sky after few days...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk6.jpg
I continued towards Nanos then through Rebrnice and Podnanos up towards the top. At about 600 to 800m I was punching though the layer of this low cloudiness blanket and finally its getting brighter above 850m. Temperature is only +4° here. I am almost above it...when I arrived above 900m the view is like in the fairy tale...fantastic feeling being on the sun again! Crystal clear air, visibility more than excelent. Temperature is here +7°. First photo above the blanket...
Fog and low cloudiness all around...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk9.jpg
Julian Alps are almost in front of my nose in this crystal clear air...
Zoom-in directly into Mt. Triglav (2864m)...quite a lot of fresh snow there...
I went a bit higher to around 1000m to get a better angle for shooting. Temperature is here around +11°! A view towards Trnovski gozd...
And more wider view towards Italian Dolomites and Carnic Alps...
Some interesting details of undulating clouds over the Nanos ridges...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk19.jpg
A view towards southwest shows Mt. Slavnik (1028m)...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk23.jpg
Some clouds at the edge of the ridge is making some nice moments...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk25.jpg
And also a young couple enjoying their moments on the sun with heavenly feeling above clouds in the back...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk24.jpg
Almost full Moon rolls in...
But it does not interest me so much, clouds below are just too good. Continuing shooting and enjoying the moments of clouds undulating details...I also put a video camera to record this undulating (there is a video link from youtube at the end)...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk28.jpg
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk30.jpg
One of the last moments on this height before I went up towards the top... a view towards Julian Alps and Trnovski gozd...a lower angle of the sun gives better colors...
From the Nanos top Plesa (1262m) the view down is like in the fairy tale... I am shooting like it is my last day
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk33.jpg
View directly down along the slope...
Towards the southwest some of the mountain tops are showing their heads... Vremscica, Slavnik, Cicarija and Ucka...
A close-up of Vremscica (1027m) with Cicarija (1106m) in the back...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk42.jpg
Slavnik (1028m)...
And Ucka (1401m)...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk43.jpg
Sunset is slowly approaching...colors getting better and better, ridges becoming red...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk39.jpg
On the other side Mt. Sneznik (1796m) getting the sunset colors as well...
Zoom into Mt. Sneznik...also quite a lot of fresh snow from the last snowing few days ago...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk44.jpg
Of course even Julian Alps are enjoying sunset colors...
Zoom view of Mt. Krn (2244m)...
And area around Mt. Kanin (2587m)...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk49.jpg
The Moon is looking good in this clear air...one close-up...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk50.jpg
The Nanos top Plesa in sunset colors with sea of clouds below...
The sun is sinking into the cloud blanket...I was waiting for the last sun ray moment...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk54.jpg
Few minutes after the sunset I noticed anti-crepuscular rays on the opposite side. A city of Postojna under the blanket below...
On this photo the weak Föehn effect behind the Nanos is visible as I was talking in the beginning. Clouds are separated from Nanos and I was able to see the ground for some seconds as well...
A view towards Kamnisko-Savinjske Alps...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk61.jpg
The colors at twilight are supernatural in this crystal clear air...relative humidity was only around 20%...
http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20_01_2008mk66.jpg
This mountain peak is Cimon della Pala (3184m) in the Italian Dolomites. The distance from Nanos is more than 180km away! A good point to show how excelent the air was...
Here is finally the video of my trip, first driving through the poor visibility in Razdrto and penetrating through the cloud blanket into the clear sky at 900m. And then some great animations of undulating low cloudiness around Nanos, also with the sunset at the end. Really impressive movings, wouldn't believe it if I wouldn't make these animations. Incredible!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5wAo2fHiY0
Enjoy the photos and video!
Cheers, Marko
EDIT: some IMG tags changed to URL tags to perform better loading. Just click on those links to see the images.
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