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Cool clouds

In the mountains, the weather is a little bit weird.
There are some really weird clouds to begin with. Graham said people even come to Sauto specifically to photograph the clouds. In the mornings, there are tall clouds that rise up from the valleys and vertically float up your windows.

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And then there was the time when we were in Villefranche, almost at the bottom of the valley, and it was 13 degrees and sunny. Then we drove up the mountain, and the temperature slowly dropped until, when we arrived in Sauto, it was 3 degrees. The sky was still blue, the sun was still shining. . . And it was snowing!!

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The same thing also happened with rain. There’s also a lot of days where the weather can’t make up it’s mind – snow or rain? Clouds or sun? Once, we even got rain from Africa! It was all dusty, the mirrors at the solar furnace had to be cleaned! I’m sure there’s lots more weird weather all year round that I might discover if I lived there.

Tikka masala hyphen.

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