Tramontane

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Clouds at Tramontane over Leucate

The Tramontane (from Spanish tras montaña , `` over the mountains '') is a strong, cold and dry fall wind that has a significant impact on the regional climate in the west of Languedoc-Roussillon , especially in the Aude and Pyrénées-Orientales departments .

The Tramontane, such as the Favonio in Ticino, the Bise in the Swiss Rhone Valley (in Upper Valais, the Rhone is called the "Rotten"), the Mistral in the French Rhone Valley, is one of the so-called Nordföhn wind systems. It differs from the Tramontana wind systems commonly used in German in Spain and Italy by the following climatic geographic specifics:

The Tramontane is geographically precisely specified: it is the cold downwind, mostly from the northwest, which arises when there are large differences in air pressure and temperature between the Pyrenees and Hautes Corbières on the one hand and the Mediterranean ( Golfe du Lion ) on the other.
The height of the fall wind is over 3000 m over a horizontal distance of about 50 km, which is unusual for the Mediterranean.

With opposite pressure differences between the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean, a strong southwest wind, the Autan, can develop .

Human geographic evaluation of the Tramontans

Without the Tramontane, windsurfing and kitesurfing tourism in the Aude and Pyrénées Orientales would not have been able to develop to the known extent. This is particularly true of the Leucate area . The region around the Étang de Leucate is one of the most ventilated in all of Western Europe. That is why the Corbières maritimes , bordering the banks of the Étang de Leucate, is one of the few areas in France where wind power is used to a significant extent for energy generation.

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Tramontane and Autan , Vigilance Météo (de) - Forecast graph for Tramontane and Autan