“With each new light, I rush to chronicle the streets of Montpellier. It’s my own Pokémon hunt,” jokes David Hutin. Last week, the photographer immortalized the trams, the Place de la Comédie but also this fine film of dust on a bicycle bell, under a “completely exceptional” ocher sky. And one and two sandstorms, this Saturday, April 6. So he goes back “happy as a kid” but this time he will remember to protect his lens with a plastic bag.
This Saturday, in fact, like Sunday, a cloud of sand will sweep almost the entire territory. In the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, extreme weather enthusiast Alexandre Marquis also released his camera on March 30. “4,000 mg
(particles/m2)
last week was unheard of! And we expect the same,” he rejoices. In the mountains, the photo is less beautiful. “It may surprise you. The postcard is less immaculate than when everything is white,” concedes the mayor of Saint-Gervais (Haute-Savoie), Jean-Marc Peillex.
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