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THE helm wind of Cumberland has been the subject of much discussion in England. I wonder how the true explanation has not been found, viz. that the helm wind is a bora, i.e. identical in character with the extremely strong dry east and north-east winds blowing on the coasts of Istria and Dalmatia, as well as on the north part of the east coast ofthe Black Sea, especially at Novorossiisk. At the latter place it blows from the Varada chain, about 2000 feet high, and, as with the helm wind, it is not felt a little distance to the east. I give the translation of a passage on the bora in my book on “The Climates of the World”:—
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WOEIKOF, A. The Helm Wind. Nature 33, 30 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/033030a0
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