The Bora Wind of the
Aegean Sea
The bora of the Aegean Sea is a
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). The flow is confined to the Aegean Sea by the Rhodope
mountain range to the north of the Aegean Sea, the Boz Daglar to the east
and the Pindus mountains to the west. As the flow moves south, it is
channeled and its direction changes to northwesterly flow. The gale-force
Bora--Aegean Sea can also be produced when high pressure over the
Balkans interacts with a low moving across Crete, south of the Aegean Sea.
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