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Several winds can buffet the Croatian coast and islands at any time of year, the strongest (and most disruptive) of which is the bura – a cold northeasterly, which descends upon the Adriatic from the cols and high passes of Velebit in gusts which frequently reach gale force. The Venetian traveller Alberto Abbé Fortis, writing in the 18th century, even claimed that on occasions the bura would pick up young children and dash them against the walls of houses, and throw down horses loaded with salt. There is a saying in Croatia that the bura is born in Lika (the region behind the Velebit mountains), lives on Velebit and dies on the sea – but you can expect it to give the eastern coasts of Krk, Rab, Pag and some other islands a pretty good battering, too. When the bura really does blow, expect choppy (and cooler) seas, possible disruption to ferry and catamaran services, and possible closures of bridges to traffic (including buses) on the main coastal highway.

Trees bent by the bura wind, on the rocky northeast coast of Rab (Walk 6)