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The bora is a cold and typically very dry and often gusty katabatic wind (fall-wind) from the north-east. Bora winds can occur anytime during the year. However, the peak frequency occurs in the cold season (November - March).
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www.weatheronline.co.uk/reports/wind/The-Bora.htm
www.weatheronline.co.uk/reports/wind/The-Bora.htm
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The name bora is given to similar winds in other parts of Europe, including Bulgaria, the Black Sea, and Novaya Zemlya in the Russian Arctic, and in the western United States along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains...
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www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/73774/bora
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A local bora also occurs on the east coast of the Adriatic with a cold anticyclone over the Balkans. The term bora is now applied to similar winds in other parts of the world. Well-known examples occur at Novorossiisk on the northern shore of the Black Sea, and in Novaya Zemlya (islands in the Russian Arctic).
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The area where some of the strongest bora winds occur is the Velebit ... range, extreme bora winds often occur there. They have influenced the region's traditional lifestyle and architecture. Towns on the coast, where the Bora also frequently occurs, are built densely with narrow streets in part because of the wind.
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www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Bora_(wind)
www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Bora_(wind)
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bora n. A violent, cold, northeasterly winter wind on the Adriatic Sea. [Italian dialectal, from Latin Boreās , Boreas ... Strong bora winds also occur in the Tsemes Bay of the Black Sea near the Russian port of Novorossiysk, where they are known as nordost. They can reach speeds of up to 220 kilometres per hour.
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www.answers.com/topic/bora
www.answers.com/topic/bora
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Sneaking "under the radar," hurricane force winds slammed south Boulder on Friday. Despite multiple surface indicators and nearly ideal 700mb conditions, the National Weather Service made no mention of winds over 25mph and failed to issue a High Wind Advisory or Warning.
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perilousplanet.blogspot.com/2009/02/unforecasted-bora-w...
perilousplanet.blogspot.com/2009/02/unforecasted-bora-winds-strike-front.html
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Anticyclonic pattern Bora winds are most intense to the north, decreasing somewhat moving southward. ... Bora winds are most common during the cool season (November through March). In general, the frequency of gale force winds varies from one day per month, or less, in the summer to six days per month during winter months.
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www.nrlmry.navy.mil/~cannon/medports/Koper/ihazcond.htm...
www.nrlmry.navy.mil/~cannon/medports/Koper/ihazcond.html
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Bora--Aegean Sea: Cold, north to northeast katabatic wind flowing from the Balkans Peninsula and the mountains of western Turkey, through the Vardar and Dardenelles gaps and finally into the Aegean Sea (similar to Bora--Adriatic Sea).
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www.nrlmry.navy.mil/~medex/tutorial/medex/winds/wind_ba...
www.nrlmry.navy.mil/~medex/tutorial/medex/winds/wind_bag.html
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January has the highest annual relative frequency of severe bora winds (mean hourly wind speed > 34 knots; 17.5 ms -¹) and the highest relative frequency of number of hours with the severe bora. In the summer it blows as a local wind and then lasts only a few days.
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www.istrianet.org/istria/geosciences/meteorology/winds-...
www.istrianet.org/istria/geosciences/meteorology/winds-bora-adr.htm
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