CLIMATE IN SLOVENIA IN 2005

Abstract

After quite a number of exceptionally warm years, 2005 was again quite close to the 1961–1990 averages. Mean annual temperature was mostly above the 1961–1990 average; with the exception of Ljubljana, the temperature anomaly was less than 0.5 °C and within the limits of normal variability. No absolute temperature record was registered in 2005. In 2005, too, precipitation was the most abundant in the Julian Alps, and the lowest precipitation was registered in the Goričko region. The picture is quite different from the 1961–1990 average. There was significantly less precipitation than on average in the Soča valley and in part of the Julian Alps, precipitation was also below average in most of the western half of Slovenia, and in the Goričko region. In part of the Dolenjska region there was one fifth more precipitation than on average during the reference period. The duration of bright sunshine was mostly close to the average, only in the Ljubljana basin and Celje was there significantly more sunny weather than on average during the reference period. The deepest snow cover on Kredarica was 245 cm. This is below the average, but more than in some other years. In the lowlands, too, there was no record snow depth observed, but it was quite unusual that abundant snow cover already occurred during the last days of November and then again at the end of December.