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Encyclopedia Britannica



MISTRAL

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 617 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL
MISTRAL , a local wind similar to the bora (q.v.), met with on the French Mediterranean
coast
 . The warm Gulf of the Lion (Golfe du Lion) has to the north the cold central
plateau
  of France, which during winter is commonly a centre of high barometric pressure, and the resulting pressure gradient causes persistent currents of cold dry air from the north-west in the intermediate zone. The mistral occurs along the
coast
  from the mouth of the Ebro to the Gulf of Genoa, but attains greatest strength and frequency in
Provence
  and
Languedoc
 , i.e. the
district
  of the Rhone
delta
 , where it blows on an
average
  one day out of two; the
record
  at Marseilles is 175 days in the year. It is usually associated with cloudless skies and brilliant sun-shine, intense dryness and piercing cold. With the passage of a cyclone over the gulf, or a rapid rise of pressure following a fall of snow on the central
plateau
 , the mistral develops into a
stormy wind of
great
  violence.


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