Yesterday's storm was one of the best yet. It started with a blackening of the sky over Ventimiglia, Menton and Monaco. The blackness was sinisterly backlit with a strange afterglow illuminating Nice, as if the town had caught fire.
Over the next few minutes, strange columns of fire developed: probably just shafts of sunlight filtered through minute gaps in the raging clouds. The wind began to blow from all directions, not a pleasant prospect for the fishermen in their tiny boats. Then came lightning, thunder, and the rattle of large hailstones on the roof. To cap it all, the flashes of lightning then picked out flurries of snow.
Welcome to the winter wonderland of the Côte d'Azur.
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