Adriatic Winds

My view this Saturday morning is of a beautiful turquoise Adriatic Sea, with just a light choppiness, that creates slight white waves. 25C at 10AM, sunny but with quite a breeze I have say.

Most Brits pay a lot in travel costs by air and then sometimes inflated accommodation and food prices, to experience what I do, except it's a 5 hour meandering car journey from Banja Luka for me.

I am blessed. Without a doubt.

Back to the breeze, although I suspect it is actually wind.

The other day the weather changed within quite a short time from the typical hot and sunny to very cloudy, chilly, windy and rain.

The "Jugo" had arrived. It stayed with us for a little under a day, when almost as quickly as it came, it disappeared.

I have heard over the years about the winds of the Adriatic and in particular the 2 main players, the Jugo and the Bura.

The Bura is a cold and dry north-easterly wind. It blows from deep inland towards the open sea and brings bright weather. Rather fierce at times it reaches speeds in excess of 80 knots.

The Jugo on the other hand causes high and choppy waves, with showers in between. The Jugo can last for more than two weeks.

Local people here say that the Jugo is to blame for bad moods and bad behaviour.

Alledgedly If someone notices you are having a bad day, they’ll day “Južina?” referring to the wind. All you need to do is nod and you are forgiven for your sins that day.

The Jugo wind is blamed for everything.

However the prevailing wind the  in the summer is the Maestral.

The Maestral is refreshingly breezy and kicksoff around noon and finishes before sunset.

So as I write, the Maestral is "blowing", keeping me  cool and comfortable.

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