He was not supposed to come down from the mountains but he finally did… and we can only welcome this initiative. The storm which raged, as expected, in the hinterland this Sunday, came to finish its course on the coast, in particular in Nice where it rained for several tens of minutes at the end of the evening.
Enough to water the gardens and refresh the atmosphere, after several trying nights for the organisms where the mercury did not always drop below 25°C.
On the Côte d’Azur, several dozen lightning strikes were recorded, mainly in the Mercantour but also in Nice, while the western part of the department remained dry, as shown the map of electrical activity published on the site of Keraunos, the French Observatory of tornadoes and violent storms.
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Many Internet users, who did not miss a thing of the show, sent us their photos or shared them on social networks. Here are a few.
The storm seen from Nice
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