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With the wind, large quantities of sand from the African desert cover most of the French mountains, Tuesday, March 15.
Some believed, on the morning of Tuesday March 15, to be still in the middle of a dream. A rain of sand fell on La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime). The bravest and most careful headed for the washing stations. “When we got up, all the cars were orange. We know it comes from the Sahara, it’s rare in La Rochelle, but in any case we clean up”confides a motorist.
“There are people, and I think that today there will be no break [le] midday”, laughs on his side Sylvain Lohier, the manager of the car wash. The phenomenon occurs several times a year. A depression has developed over Morocco, and southerly winds have brought sand from the Sahara. What is striking today is above all its scale. Emmanuel Moreau, weather consultant, mentioned a “particularly virulent depression”which caused “a high concentration of sand in the atmosphere”.