The tramontana (etymology: of Spanish " trass montaña" = through the mountain, to see low) is a cold, dry wind and violent one, who blows of the North-West in the Languedoc and the Roussillon. The tramontana accelerates while passing between the the Pyrenees and the south of the Massif Central. The tramontana is close to the mistral by its origin and its effects. However, the mountainous corridors used are different between the two winds:

• Corridor of acceleration used:

• Tramontana: between the the Pyrenees and the south of the Massif Central.
• Mistral: between the East of the Massif Central and the west of the the Alps (Valley of the Rhone)

The tramontana is a form of Foehn. This strong wind can have disturbing effects on psychic balance. (Georges Brassens put in music the poem of Victor Hugo Gastibelza in which this last known as: " The wind which comes through the mountain will make me insane (… returned to me insane). "

That which commits a crime passionnel one day of " föhn" in Bavaria can profit from extenuating circumstances, says one…