Can't let this one go without my memory of the great smog of Dec '52,being
let into the cinema for free because you couldn't see the screen from the
back,discern a yellow blur half way down ,and only see figures in the front
row !.
The taste of smoke was appaling even in our houses,and the frost laid 4mm
thick for several days.by which time it resembled dirty salt.
Ah those were the days.....


RonB
"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
...
A decade or so ago I would have looked at the forthcoming charts showing
high pressure on the near continent with a slack southerly flow and almost
guaranteed widespread fogs. However, so far the forecasts have hardly
mentioned fog(s). Is this to do with the "cleaner" air we now live with,
compared to the soot producing smogs of yester-year. Wew hardly get an hour
or two of fog in a year now, here at Southend-on-Sea, yet I can remember
days with it, and some days it never cleared at all through the day.

What has changed?
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Keith (Southend)
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e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net