STORM WINDS IN SLOVENIA IN 2012

Abstract

In 2012, wind levels were above average across a large part of Slovenia. In the southeast, the Pohorje hills and the northern part of the Slovenske Gorice hills, wind levels were below average. The north foehn was the strongest wind in January and in the first half of February, while the strongest winds during the hurricane-force bora wind in the Primorska region at the end of January and in the first half of February, during summer storms, in October, November and December occurred with frontal passages. For the third year in a row, the hurricane-force bora wind occurred, causing substantial damage.