hh on Nostr: This week I've booked two morning to go sailing, which I haven't done enough of these ...
This week I've booked two morning to go sailing, which I haven't done enough of these past couple months during the peak of the summer. I'm trying to cut my teeth, learn... the ropes... as much as possible while the good weather lasts.
September even this early is still hot, 30 C and above is normal, but because the sea is so warm after months of heavy sun, the arrival of a high altitude depression from the polar jet stream which are so hard to predict because they are not reflected in "normal" surface weather maps, can cause quite sudden and violent storms.
Similarly, this time of the year we start to get cyclones south from here, which bring in warm air from Northern Africa that go around the NW Med unimpeded, loading up with heavy rain, and turning into really bad north-easterly gales with very long fetch, i.e., really bad waves, 5-6 meter-high. Episodes with waves 8, 9 and even 10+ meter-high are relatively frequent.
People have this conception of the Mediterranean Sea as this sort of placid little lake, and it can be and often is. But I tell you, it can get very violent and very unpleasant, very quickly.
September even this early is still hot, 30 C and above is normal, but because the sea is so warm after months of heavy sun, the arrival of a high altitude depression from the polar jet stream which are so hard to predict because they are not reflected in "normal" surface weather maps, can cause quite sudden and violent storms.
Similarly, this time of the year we start to get cyclones south from here, which bring in warm air from Northern Africa that go around the NW Med unimpeded, loading up with heavy rain, and turning into really bad north-easterly gales with very long fetch, i.e., really bad waves, 5-6 meter-high. Episodes with waves 8, 9 and even 10+ meter-high are relatively frequent.
People have this conception of the Mediterranean Sea as this sort of placid little lake, and it can be and often is. But I tell you, it can get very violent and very unpleasant, very quickly.