Joe Hunt wrote in message ...
:The Mistral wind is blowing and some quite high temperatures are being
:recorded at Nice Airport -

:LFMN 311330Z 24016KT 9999 FEW050 36/11 Q1007 NOSIG


Le groupe uk.sci.weather est-il en train de devenir un espace multilingue,
réservé aux seuls polyglottes ?

Mistral certainly in the Rhone valley, e.g. Marseille
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/LFML.html or Orange
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/LFMO.html

Nice wind direction actually WSW - is there some sort of föhn effect from
the hills upwind ? Such a high temperature is surely fairly unusual when
you consider that Nice Airport is almost surrounded by sea.

Note also Cannes http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/LFMD.html - RH
15%.

Colin Youngs
Brussels