Bora (Wind) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bora is a northern to north-eastern katabatic wind in the Adriatic, Croatia, Italy, Greece, Slovenia, and Turkey. Its name derives from the Greek mythological figure of Boreas/, the North Wind. The changeable Bora can often be felt all over Dalmatia, Istria, the Slovenian Littoral, Trieste, and the rest of the Adriatic east coast. It blows in gusts. The Bora is most common during the winter. It blows hardest, as the meteorologist Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel explained it by extending Julius Hann's explanation of Alpine katabatic winds to the north Adriatic, when a polar high-pressure area sits over the snow-covered mountains of the interior plateau behind the Dinaric coastal mountain range and a calm low-pressure area lies further south over the warmer Adriatic.