See also Winds of the World
Mavi Boncuk |
Gündoğusu: dry and cold East wind
Keşişleme : South East wind of Istanbul. Nautical sailor use. Keşiş, monk EN. from the direction of Keşişdagi/Uludag of Bursa. Also | Samyeli | Akyeli
Kıble: hot and moist South wind.
Lodos:hot South West wind. Nautical sailor use. Also Kabayel | kumkarası
Günbatısı: hot and humid West wind.
Karayel: North West wind following rain.
Yıldız: cold North wind. Nautical sailor use.
Poyraz: North East wind.Cold and snow in winter. Choppy seas and white foam on the peaks of waves..
İmbat: from Italian "İmbatto"[1]. Meltem of sea. Seasonal Aegean wind blowing from sea to land.
Sam Yeli: Desert wind. Usually used in Southeast Turkey.
Etezyen: May-September winds. East Mediterranean and Aegean wind from North.
Bora: High Northern winds.Used interchangeably with Poyraz.
Meltem: The Meltemi wind was known by the old Greeks as the Etesian[2]northern winds, and results from a high pressure system laying over the Balkan/Hungary area and a relatively low system over Turkey. Although this katabatic[3] wind can bring about harsh sailing conditions it also provides cooling, low humidity and good visibility. Furthermore, it can be characterized as one of the few Mediterranean winds that do not necessarily die out at the end of the day and can easily last more than three to six days.
Possibly from Italian maltempo m (plural maltempi) foul weather EN; kötü hava. tempo da lupi - lousy weather. Tempo= time EN. From Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stetch, string”).
[1] imbatto [im-bàt-to]
Imbatto wind, the sea wind blowing toward the coast
[2] recurring annually —used of summer winds that blow over the Mediterranean from Latin etesius, from Greek etēsios, from etos year .
[3] A katabatic wind, from the Greek word katabatikos meaning "going downhill", is the technical name for a drainage wind, a wind that carries high density air from a higher elevation down a slope under the force of gravity. Sometimes also called fall winds. Examples of true katabatic winds include the bora (or bura) in the Adriatic, the Bohemian Wind or Böhmwind in the Ore Mountains, the mistral, the Santa Ana in southern California, the tramontane, and the oroshi in Japan.
Not all downslope winds are katabatic. For instance, winds such as the foehn, Chinook, or bergwind, are rain shadow winds where air driven upslope on the windward side of a mountain range drops its moisture and descends leeward drier and warmer.
Mavi Boncuk |
Gündoğusu: dry and cold East wind
Keşişleme : South East wind of Istanbul. Nautical sailor use. Keşiş, monk EN. from the direction of Keşişdagi/Uludag of Bursa. Also | Samyeli | Akyeli
Kıble: hot and moist South wind.
Lodos:hot South West wind. Nautical sailor use. Also Kabayel | kumkarası
Günbatısı: hot and humid West wind.
Karayel: North West wind following rain.
Yıldız: cold North wind. Nautical sailor use.
Poyraz: North East wind.Cold and snow in winter. Choppy seas and white foam on the peaks of waves..
İmbat: from Italian "İmbatto"[1]. Meltem of sea. Seasonal Aegean wind blowing from sea to land.
Sam Yeli: Desert wind. Usually used in Southeast Turkey.
Etezyen: May-September winds. East Mediterranean and Aegean wind from North.
Bora: High Northern winds.Used interchangeably with Poyraz.
Meltem: The Meltemi wind was known by the old Greeks as the Etesian[2]northern winds, and results from a high pressure system laying over the Balkan/Hungary area and a relatively low system over Turkey. Although this katabatic[3] wind can bring about harsh sailing conditions it also provides cooling, low humidity and good visibility. Furthermore, it can be characterized as one of the few Mediterranean winds that do not necessarily die out at the end of the day and can easily last more than three to six days.
Possibly from Italian maltempo m (plural maltempi) foul weather EN; kötü hava. tempo da lupi - lousy weather. Tempo= time EN. From Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stetch, string”).
[1] imbatto [im-bàt-to]
Imbatto wind, the sea wind blowing toward the coast
[2] recurring annually —used of summer winds that blow over the Mediterranean from Latin etesius, from Greek etēsios, from etos year .
[3] A katabatic wind, from the Greek word katabatikos meaning "going downhill", is the technical name for a drainage wind, a wind that carries high density air from a higher elevation down a slope under the force of gravity. Sometimes also called fall winds. Examples of true katabatic winds include the bora (or bura) in the Adriatic, the Bohemian Wind or Böhmwind in the Ore Mountains, the mistral, the Santa Ana in southern California, the tramontane, and the oroshi in Japan.
Not all downslope winds are katabatic. For instance, winds such as the foehn, Chinook, or bergwind, are rain shadow winds where air driven upslope on the windward side of a mountain range drops its moisture and descends leeward drier and warmer.