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Part of the reason so few boats berth in its waters is the meltemi, a constant summer wind so strong it bends pine trees over permanently into bonsai-like sculptures.
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During the third week of August, when most of Greece was in the grip of a heat wave, the meltemi died down and temperatures on Karpathos promptly shot above 40 degrees centigrade during the day.
sionnach commented on the word meltemi
Turkish name for the same wind the Greeks call Etesian in Turkish it means ''Bad tempered one''.
The regular winds blowing over the eastern Mediterranean all summer. The Meltemi is strongest and steadiest in July and August.
March 6, 2007
qms commented on the word meltemi
See also comments at Meltemi.
January 2, 2017