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We braced ourselves for rain or snow or high winds but in fact it rained just a little then the sky cleared.

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Sky Watch Friday

The roofs of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Nice; I fell in love with the Cathedral last weekend and have shown several photos from various viewpoints. I promise this will be the last, at least for a while.
For anyone interested in the history of the Cathedral scroll back to Tuesday's post..

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Sky Watch Friday

As I have a distinct aversion to being cold and enjoy the snow only from my armchair by the side of the fire, you can tell I didn't take this photo so it's thanks to Josh who headed up to experience the white, fluffy stuff.
The shot was taken about 2 weeks ago, after the first snowfall, from the Col de Vence looking out over the Med and the crowded coastline..

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Sky Watch Friday

The sky looking North to the mountains: as you can see the bout of cold weather brought us lots of cold rain at lower altitudes and snow at around 800m which means that the small ski stations will have a good base of snow for Christmas..

I was also going to point out the contrails which are ever present in our skies as flights from Nice to Paris, I think, fly over our house. There was a lively discussion about contrails and how they're responsible for messing up the weather on a local forum which I was intending to link to but that's disappeared during the course of the forum's revamp. Being a Gemini I listen to both sides but not being a scientist I have no idea which side is right. Interestingly, though, as the sky filled up with the vapour trails it did actually rain later..

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