jeba wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 9:44 am
cyprusmax47 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 20, 2024 7:17 am
it does not help really that I live high up Paphos.
Shouldn´t the temperature be the lower the higher you are? At least that was my thinking when I bought a plot up the hills.
In theory correct, however we are in Cyprus and nearly every valley or area has different conditions. Sometimes I have wind, while the windmills at the Kouklia wind farm which I can see from my place don't turn and this is only 15 km away from me.
My place is the same sea level than Polemi, however completely different as I have never fog which happens at Polemi many times.
When the wind in the night comes from the direction of Nicosia and Troodos mountains, it is very dry and warm in spring, summer and autumn.
I compare it with the situation in South Bavaria, where I lived in the past, when the warm "Foehn" wind arrives over the Alps from South to North.
Here what Wiki has to say:
A Foehn, or Föhn (UK: /fɜːn/, US: /feɪn/ fayn,[2][3] US also /fʌn, fɜːrn/ fu(r)n[4][5]), is a type of dry, relatively warm downslope wind that occurs in the lee (downwind side) of a mountain range. It is a rain shadow wind that results from the subsequent adiabatic warming of air that has dropped most of its moisture on windward slopes (see orographic lift). As a consequence of the different adiabatic lapse rates of moist and dry air, the air on the leeward slopes becomes warmer than equivalent elevations on the windward slopes.
Foehn winds can raise temperatures by as much as 14 °C (57 °F)[6] in just a matter of hours. Switzerland, southern Germany, and Austria have a warmer climate due to the Foehn, as moist winds off the Mediterranean Sea blow over the Alps.
Max