"please explain this "bora." i was looking at those pictures online and i read your blog, but... dear god! does that happen every year? just like that?? what do people do about their cars?? have sick "bora" car insurance?? how are you surviving this??! it looks terrifying slash really awesome because i like standing outside in hurricanes... the two times one's blown intensely through this part of virginia.
I WANT INFORMATION."
happily, i obliged to give a lesson on the weather of trieste.
the bora is a north wind that comes to trieste from siberia. it's cold in siberia, thus, this wind is very cold. trieste is "famous for" the bora. we have the bora here like other places have snow in the winter -- it's our severe weather. the bora will be around usually for 3-4 days at a time and beautiful weather can follow. it's exceptionally miserable when the boar is paired with a rainstorm -- this combination makes the use of an umbrella simply laughable.
yes, it does happen every year and all the time however, this year (this week) there have been record-breaking wind speeds. i think it got up to 140-170kph which is really fast. it usually is pretty strong winds -- there are banisters along the sidewalks throughout the city so that when the bora blows you can hold on to stop yourself from being blown into oncoming traffic -- but this week has been particularly bad. many triestini people that i've talked to have said that this is as bad as they've seen it in 10/15/50 years (it varies but the conclusion is that it's bad) and i'm pretty sure that they should've cancelled school.
again, here are the photos of the bora this week. the 2 most hilarious things that have happened this week because of the bora are:
1. the shutter on my window got shattered in half and blown off of the outside wall of my apartment one night. would have sucked if i owned or rented my apartment. but since the school does, it's not my problem and is allowed to be hilarious.
2. there are a bunch of cranes down by the water and one of them FLOATED AWAY the other day. just like floated out to sea. the wind just blew it out there. there are some pictures of this on both of those links i just pasted.
one not-so-hilarious thing is that a ton (like 150) of people have been hospitalized from bora-related injuries. these include being hit in the head by something that was blown off of something else as well as injuries from the wind picking people up and slamming them back down onto the ground. isn't that INSANE?! the wind slamming you down onto the ground so hard that you have to go to the hospital.
again, i think school should have been cancelled all week because i have to walk about a mile to school each morning and i could have been hit in the head or slammed onto the ground. and i'm pretty sure my insurance would not cover such problems.
other people's insurance, however, i think, does cover bora-related problems. like if something falls on your car or house from the bora then it's covered by insurance, i think. i asked but no one seems to be totally sure.
and yes, it is terrifying. i have been having the craziest dreams this week -- the wind is SO LOUD outside my window and we are on the top floor of our apartment building so we could feel the whole apartment shaking at times. also! i have to ride a bus/tram up a mountain each morning to school and riding a bus that's driving up the side of a mountain with insane gusts of wind is not my favorite morning-time activity.
SO! that's a lot of information about the bora. and as you may understand, the weather here has contributed to my decision to not stay here another year. BUT! the bora is gone today and behind it has come beautiful blue skies and warmer weather. AND! it's friday!
any questions?!
x!
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