Mistral (wind) of mistral is weaker in the east of Provence and the Côte d'Azur. The mistral is not always synonymous with clear skies. When a low pressure front over the Mediterranean approaches the coast from the southeast, the weather can change quickly for the worse, and the mistral and its clear sky changes rapidly to an east wind bringing humid air and threatening clouds. The position of the low-pressure front creates a flow of air from the northwest or the northeast, channeled through the Rhône Valley. If this low-pressure area moves back toward the southeast, the mistral will quickly clear the
Jacques Mistral Jacques Mistral Jacques Mistral (born September 22, 1947) is a French economist and professor. He is a member of the Council of Economic Analysis ("Conseil d'analyse économique") in France, a member of the Cercle des économistes, and as of October 2009, a member of the scientific council of the center-left think tank "Fondation pour l'innovation politique". Mistral was born in Toulouse, France. He graduated from the École Polytechnique in Paris in 1967 and earned his Ph.D in Economics from the University of Paris I in 1977. Mistral has held several professorships: from 1978 to 1992, he was a professor of