METEONAUTICA
Meteorologia Marina

Weather and sea bulletin for the Mediterranean Sea

issued by Deutscher Wetterdienst, Marine Meteorological Service Hamburg
at 23.10.2020, 12.00 UTC.

General synoptic situation 12 UTC:
A thundery low south of Crete is slowly moving southeastwards. Further west high pressure prevails. From southern France to Algeria a trough of an Atlantic low move southeastwards. Later on an intense low approach the Bay of Biscay with its troughs.

FORECAST UNTIL SATURDAY EVENING:

Canary Islands:
northeast 4 to 5, locally 6.

Alboran/Gibraltar:
west to southwest 3 to 4.

Palos (between Southeast Spain and West Algeria):
west to southwest about 4, decreasing a little.

Balearic Islands:
southwest to west about 4, for a time shifting northwest, locally thundery gusts.

West of Corsica/Sardinia:
westerly winds 3 to 4, northern part at times 5, shower- or thundery gusts.

Gulf of Lion:
southwest to west about 3, for a time shifting northwest, increasing 5 to 6, near the coast first shower- or thundery gusts.

Ligurian Sea:
southwesterly winds about 3, increasing about 5, northern part at times light and variable winds, shower- or thundery gusts.

Tyrrhenian Sea:
southerly winds about 4, shifting west to northwest, northern part locally 6, shower- or thundery gusts.

Adriatic Sea:
southern part at times light and variable winds, otherwise south to southeast about 4, decreasing a little, shower- or thundery gusts.

Ionian Sea:
westerly winds about 3, at times light and variable winds.

Aegean Sea:
northwesterly winds about 4, abating.

Taurus:
western part northwesterly winds about 3, otherwise light and variable winds.

Bay of Biscay:
southwesterly winds about 5, northern part and western part increasing about 7, shower squalls, sea later 6 metre.