Weather report issued by The Marine Meteorological Center Split on 07.11.2021 at 12


Warning
At night and in the morning a risk of fog, then towards midday of light isolated thunderstorms. Tomorrow in the North and in a part of the Central Adriatic local gusts of NE wind 35-45, in the Velebit Channel up to 60 knots.
Synopsis
The low situated across western Mediterranean is spreading a trough across the Adriatic whereas a ridge of high is expected to be intensifying from the north.
Weather forecast for the Adriatic for the first 12 hours
Mainly calm whereas towards late in the day SE wind increasing to 6-16 knots in the south of the Adriatic. The sea 1-2, towards late in the day intensifying to 2-3 in the south of the Adriatic. Visibility 10-20 km but during the night possibly reduced to less than 1 km due to fog, particularly in the north of the Adriatic. Gradual and partial cloud increase with a low risk of scattered rain.
Weather forecast for the next 12 hours
Still at night and in the morning a risk of fog, particularly in the north of the Adriatic but then more intense cloud increase accompanied by scattered rain, rain showers and thunder. In the South and in a larger part of the Central Adriatic SE wind increasing to light to fresh. Elsewhere NE wind increasing to moderate to strong, in the Velebit Channel of near gale force. The sea smooth to slight but around midday moderate locally in the north of the Adriatic.
PMC - Split

Douglas scale
State of the sea Description Waves average height (m)
0 calm (glassy) 0
1 calm (rippled) 0 - 0.1
2 smooth 0.1 - 0.5
3 slight 0.5 - 1.2
4 moderate 1.25 - 2.5
5 rough 2.5 - 4
6 very rough 4 - 6
7 high 6 - 9
8 very high 9 - 14
9 phenomenal > 14

Beaufort scale
Wind speed Waves height
km/h m/s kt mph m ft
0 Bf calm < 1 0 - 0.2 < 1 < 1 - -
1 Bf light air 1 - 5 0.3 - 1.5 1 - 3 1-3 0.1 (0.1) 0.25 (0.25)
2 Bf light breeze 6 - 11 1.6 - 3.3 4 - 6 4 - 7 0.2 (0.3) 0.5 (1)
3 Bf gentle breeze 12 - 19 3.4 - 5.4 7 - 10 8 - 12 0.6 (1) 2 (3)
4 Bf moderate breeze 20 - 28 5.5 - 7.9 11 - 16 13 - 18 1 (1.5) 3.5 (5)
5 Bf fresh breeze 29 - 38 8.0 - 10.7 17 - 21 19 - 24 2 (2.5) 6 (8.5)
6 Bf strong breeze 39 - 49 10.8 - 13.8 22 - 27 25 - 31 3 (4) 9.5 (13)
7 Bf near gale 50 - 61 13.9 - 17.1 28 - 33 32 - 38 4 (5.5) 13.5 (19)
8 Bf gale 62 - 74 17.2 - 20.7 34 - 40 39 - 46 5.5 (7.5) 18 (25)
9 Bf strong gale 75 - 88 20.8 - 24.4 41 - 47 47 - 54 7 (10) 23 (32)
10 Bf storm 89 - 102 24.5 - 28.4 48 - 55 55 - 63 9 (12.5) 29 (41)
11 Bf violent storm 103 - 117 28.5 - 32.6 56 - 63 64 - 72 11.5 (16) 37 (52)
12 Bf hurricane >= 118 >= 32.7 >= 64 >= 73 14 (-) 45 (-)

Adriatic sub-basins