Suretta Sud Glacier - Servizio Glaciologico Lombardo

snow-meteo report
Continuing a positive April, May was characterized
by a precipitation surplus of 10-20%.
Nevertheless, as the snow limits moved to a
higher altitude than in the previous month, very
good snow accumulation occurred only on the
higher basins, while the sectors located below
2800 m a.s.l. were washed out by heavy rains.
Between the end of May and the beginning of
June, the snow surveys conducted at the SGL
sampling sites witnessed an accumulation
matching the average of the last 10 years in
the central-eastern sectors, while the western
Fig. 2: Lombardy Snow chart at the end of the 2007/2008 accumulation season.
sectors (i.e. Vazzeda and Suretta Sud Glaciers)
reported below-average snow accumulation,
though the situation was not as bad as
in the previous season. Thanks to this final recovery,
the accumulation season ended with
about average precipitation and snow levels,
though the distribution of the precipitations was
concentrated in single, important events that
mainly favoured the avalanche accumulations.
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