METEONAUTICA
Meteorologia Marina

Weather and sea bulletin for the Mediterranean Sea

issued by Deutscher Wetterdienst, Marine Meteorological Service Hamburg
at 17.01.2020, 13.00 UTC.

General synoptic situation 12 UTC:
low 1012 southeastern part levantine sea, weakening, moving east. large high 1034 ukraine, moving east later. ridge 1025 greece, moving east later. low 1022 southfrance, deepening a little, moving eastsoutheast. high 1034 portugal, weakening a little, moving northeast. high 1035 morocco, moving east. gale centre 991 north of the azores, weakening, moving eastsoutheast.

FORECAST UNTIL SATURDAY EVENING:

Canary Islands:
east to northeast about 4.

Alboran/Gibraltar:
southwest to west about 3, for a time light and variable winds, later locally shower squalls.

Palos (between Southeast Spain and West Algeria):
southwest about 4, for a time light and variable winds, later locally shower squalls.

Balearic Islands:
southwest about 5, decreasing a little, eastern part for a time northwest to north about 6, northern part locally severe thundery gusts.

West of Corsica/Sardinia:
southwest 4 to 5, shifting northwest, northern part for a time increasing 7, northern part severe thundery gusts.

Gulf of Lion:
southwest about 4, shifting fast northwest, for a time increasing 7, severe thundery gusts.

Ligurian Sea:
southwesterly winds about 4, for a time west to northwest about 6, severe thundery gusts.

Tyrrhenian Sea:
northwest about 3, increasing 5 to 6, for a time locally 7, for a time shifting west to southwest, severe thundery gusts.

Adriatic Sea:
northwest 3 to 4, veering, increasing a little, later variable directions 3 to 5, thundery gusts.

Ionian Sea:
north to northwest about 4, decreasing a little, shifting west to southwest.

Aegean Sea:
northerly winds about 6, decreasing a little, locally shower squalls.

Taurus:
eastern part northeast about 6, abating, western part northwest about 4, increasing about 5, locally shower squalls.

Bay of Biscay:
west 6, for a time decreasing about 4, shifting southeast, later variable directions 4 to 7, locally thundery gusts.