The SOUND of the Bora/Bura orographic wind; episode near Bakarac on February 26, 2023 (up to 150kmph + sleet); Bakar, Rijeka, Hrvatska
26-February-2023
I'm not a videomaker, on the contrary, forgive the clumsy filming in a difficult situation anyway, but I believe that due to this peculiar wind that blows, at times, from Trieste to Dalmatia, the strongest and (ALWAYS LESS) frequent in the whole Mediterranean, a video gives a better idea of the individual photos, which will follow anyway.
I believe that the charm of the Bora's power over the Mediterranean is far greater than the annoyance-danger it can cause, but everyone has their own ideas.
I think a video is much more engaging than a single photo, although, in an absolute sense, I prefer the second one because it freezes an instant for eternity.
Looking at the topography of this area, the Bakar Bay seems well sheltered from E/NE and N/E winds (theoretically coming from the Lič-Fužine basin), and this is partly the case for the opposite inlet (the one where Bakar City resides), but not for this part of the T-shaped bay, that of the "road village" Bakarac (Uvala Bakarac), where it finds a gap from E/SE, from the valley behind the "ass" of the inlet, channeling itself in the "Bura Viadukt", from Hreljin ("Picchetto", for lovers of slightly obsolete Italian names), a tortuous tour that the Bora knows well since it has always done it, since well before the recent viaduct.
It must be said that a very strong Bora katabatic wind (in any case by no means exceptional) like the one on Sunday 26 February, arrives everywhere even from the opposite direction to that from which one would expect it, being thick enough to climb over every obstacle and roll (not slip as for the "Borino/Burin") down from Gorski Kotar taking various routes.
Speaking only of the Croatian northern coast on the mainland (Adriatic/"Jadranska Magistrala" road), there are areas subject to channeling where it is particularly insistent, such as precisely in Bakarac, Kraljevica and Senj, certainly superior to that of Trieste (Rive) for AVERAGE speed, and really quiet areas, such as Crikvenica, although some gusts arrive, exactly everywhere.
In the immediate hinterland, always on the coastal side, however, it blows with terrifying continuity almost everywhere, with the maximum probably in the valley from Gornje Jelenje towards the Grobnik racetrack, behind Rijeka (where instead the bora is felt relatively little), in the one from Bjelolasica towards Novi Vinodolski (with the last locality partially sheltered), section Brez-Bribir, as well as the Vratnik-Senj, with the last locality particularly "affected".
The snow that, by radar, originally fell about 15km(!!) inland, was dragged by the Bora to the sea (drifting snow), wetting the streets even in the extreme north of Krk Island (Most Krk area, Bridge closed for 10 hours) and making snowcover in the immediate hinterland (just 150m above sea level) both in Kraljevica and in Senj, which only happens where the watershed (Gornje Jelenje or Vratnik) is very close to the coast, maintaining high humidity up to 5-6km before the final descent.
Istria, the islands and even Rijeka were out of range of the drifting snow.
The SOUND of the Bora/Bura orographic wind; episode near Bakarac on February 26, 2023 (up to 150kmph + sleet); Bakar, Rijeka, Hrvatska
26-February-2023
I'm not a videomaker, on the contrary, forgive the clumsy filming in a difficult situation anyway, but I believe that due to this peculiar wind that blows, at times, from Trieste to Dalmatia, the strongest and (ALWAYS LESS) frequent in the whole Mediterranean, a video gives a better idea of the individual photos, which will follow anyway.
I believe that the charm of the Bora's power over the Mediterranean is far greater than the annoyance-danger it can cause, but everyone has their own ideas.
I think a video is much more engaging than a single photo, although, in an absolute sense, I prefer the second one because it freezes an instant for eternity.
Looking at the topography of this area, the Bakar Bay seems well sheltered from E/NE and N/E winds (theoretically coming from the Lič-Fužine basin), and this is partly the case for the opposite inlet (the one where Bakar City resides), but not for this part of the T-shaped bay, that of the "road village" Bakarac (Uvala Bakarac), where it finds a gap from E/SE, from the valley behind the "ass" of the inlet, channeling itself in the "Bura Viadukt", from Hreljin ("Picchetto", for lovers of slightly obsolete Italian names), a tortuous tour that the Bora knows well since it has always done it, since well before the recent viaduct.
It must be said that a very strong Bora katabatic wind (in any case by no means exceptional) like the one on Sunday 26 February, arrives everywhere even from the opposite direction to that from which one would expect it, being thick enough to climb over every obstacle and roll (not slip as for the "Borino/Burin") down from Gorski Kotar taking various routes.
Speaking only of the Croatian northern coast on the mainland (Adriatic/"Jadranska Magistrala" road), there are areas subject to channeling where it is particularly insistent, such as precisely in Bakarac, Kraljevica and Senj, certainly superior to that of Trieste (Rive) for AVERAGE speed, and really quiet areas, such as Crikvenica, although some gusts arrive, exactly everywhere.
In the immediate hinterland, always on the coastal side, however, it blows with terrifying continuity almost everywhere, with the maximum probably in the valley from Gornje Jelenje towards the Grobnik racetrack, behind Rijeka (where instead the bora is felt relatively little), in the one from Bjelolasica towards Novi Vinodolski (with the last locality partially sheltered), section Brez-Bribir, as well as the Vratnik-Senj, with the last locality particularly "affected".
The snow that, by radar, originally fell about 15km(!!) inland, was dragged by the Bora to the sea (drifting snow), wetting the streets even in the extreme north of Krk Island (Most Krk area, Bridge closed for 10 hours) and making snowcover in the immediate hinterland (just 150m above sea level) both in Kraljevica and in Senj, which only happens where the watershed (Gornje Jelenje or Vratnik) is very close to the coast, maintaining high humidity up to 5-6km before the final descent.
Istria, the islands and even Rijeka were out of range of the drifting snow.