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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21266, 21 February 1931, Page 20

A rain of mud fell on Paris, covering roofs, , coating pedestrians’ faces, and colouring the red and blue taxicabs light brown. Meteorologists state that this phenomenon has never been recorded in Paris before. They ascribe it to the fierce winds from the south which swept over . France after collecting quantities of sand from the Sahara Desert. Quantities of the pale yellow mud were collected for analysis. Just before the storm the sky abruptly darkened as if normal rain was coming. Then pedestrians began to notice that they were being covered with mud.