I was talking to a couple at a village party on Wednesday evening.
They had just returned from Crete and gave a wonderful description of
rapidly fluctuating temperatures from scorching dry heat to feeling
like they had opened the fridge door. Wind directions apparently
varied (although they didn't actually note the correlation between
temperature and wind direction although there would have been some).
They had already noticed a peculiar cloud that was unlike any they had
seen before. One interesting observation was how periodically the sea
surface became very rough(appeared to be "boiling"), presumably as the
down current hit the surface. They gave a fascinating account but had
no idea as to the reason so have now been made the wiser.

On a parallel topic, I have been given a link to a marvellous time
lapse of our own Helm Wind made by Anita Evans and the link can be
seen on my weatherjack page, but here's the short cut direct.

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...38823&hl=en-GB

Jack