Living & ownership
Living with the bura: how the coast arranges itself around wind
The bura is a northeasterly wind that falls from the mountains to the sea in gusts. For visitors it is a spectacle, for residents a schedule: it decides when laundry dries, where the car parks and when to cross the bridges.
What the bura is, and what it is not
The national meteorological service keeps climate data by station, which shows that windiness is not equal along the coast: the channel below Velebit and the Split area see the strongest gusts.1
The bura is a dry, cold wind: after it the air is transparent and the view long, which residents read as a sign of stable weather to come.1
Habits that adjust to the wind
Laundry dries faster in a bura than in a dryer, but the pegs must be serious and lighter pieces turned away from the sea: knowledge the coast passes down through generations.1
On days with announced gusts the car does not park under dry pines or beside exposed facades, and shutters come down before leaving the house.1
When the bura enters traffic
HAK publishes road conditions in real time, including bans for vehicle categories on bridges and sections under bura, so travel on windy days is planned with that report open.2