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Video from the Met Office Gibraltar shows a stunning levanter cloud — named after the Levant wind that blows westward across the local terrain — seemingly forming out of thin air. In reality ...
There is no publicly available data on how rare Levanter clouds are in Gibraltar nor when they are most likely to form, but the Levant wind is most prevalent between June and October, according to ...
Seven prehistoric wind instruments known as flutes were recently identified. The discovery of these 12,000 -year-old aerophones is extremely rare -- in fact, they are thought to be the first to be ...
The cloud formation is named after the Levant wind that blows westward in the region. In the video, the Levanter cloud appears to be flowing off the peak of the Rock of Gibraltar, located in the ...
The formation, also known as banner cloud, is created when a Levant wind (a warm, east to north-east wind) is funnelled through the Strait of Gibraltar. The wind brings warm, moist air from the ...
Seven prehistoric wind instruments known as flutes, recently identified by a Franco-Israeli team1, are the subject of an article published on 9 June in Nature Scientific Reports. The discovery of ...