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