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How Lipariot fishermen observe and interpret signs of squall in the sky.
THE PROJECT
A NEW EXPEDITION
THE 1999' EXPEDITION
Winds of Lipari islands
Aeolus' kingdom
Squall phenomenon
Extract from ship's log
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Signs of squall
Meteorological explanation
Weather prediction
Stakes of weather prediction
THE 2000' EXPEDITION
Gale in the Strait of Vulcano.
 
Like all sailors in the world Lipariot ones observe the sky attentively. When they see in the afternoon small white cumulus clouds gather over the Calbabrian coast from the sout-east, and if in the same time a light wind blows from the west, they expect these clouds to develop into a continuous formation, the "barrone", the "bar". First of a bright white, the bar coming from the Italian coast turns light grey, then dark grey as it approaches the islands, and black near the coast (Photo). It is the sign that the libeccio will die away and the meggiorno shirocco rise. South-east winds met west winds near summits. The bourrasca stops regular west winds. It will last ten, twenty, thirty minutes, one hour, rarely longer, reaching 8 or 9 in the Beaufortscale and will be followed for two or three hours by an east wind that gradually decreases to 5 or 4 on the Beaufortscale, and temporarily drops for some time.... untill the arrival of the next squall. next
     
   
 
 
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