Some friends here, however, have just offered to sell us their extra multisystem unit. We're going to try it out this week and see how it works. A copy of Close Encounters of the Third Kind , with Richard Dreyfus, that I taped off of TV a long time ago. If you've read Peter Mayle's books, you've got some idea what I'm talking about. The mistral is a wind, but a serious wind.
Temperatures can drop rather rapidly.
If the mistral is particularly strong, it will bend around and come sweeping out of the west into the Nice area. I didn't notice when it stopped. The nice thing about the mistral is that it clears the sky. Since it seems to be caused by solar heating, there can't be many clouds around. And the French avoid lighting their choking fires on windy days, so they don't burn down the whole town.