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The Lebic (or garbina) is a gale force wind from the southwest that brings heavy rain and creates high waves that are dangerous for harbors not protected to the southwest.
The lebic develops on the southern side of a cyclone when there is a strong anticyclone at the same time that a strong cyclone passes to the north. As the cyclone moves along the coast, the wind suddenly veers to the southwest, reaching gale force. The wind will blow itself out as the low air pressure rises. If the cyclone moves to the northeast or east, the lebic will only blow for a short period.
During the summer this is a locally occurring, warm nevera. At other times of the year it is a form of cyclone.
Signals that a lebic may arrive are a sudden drop in barometer pressure and a low hazy line on the southwest horizon.
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