When I was about 7 or 8, I'm guessing 1986 or 1987, I remember the worst fog
I've ever witnessed, here in Brum. It was on a Saturday in late October or
early November, and I had attended a bonfire and fireworks display with my
aunt and uncle in Edgbaston, was returning back to Shard End in the Cole
Valley to the east of the city, and as we got closer home the fog became so
bad that for parts of the last 500 metres home, my aunt had to get out of
the car and help give my uncle guidance on navigating the streets. The
visibility may not even have been 10 metres, no doubt all the bonfires had
something to do with it, but I've never heard that event referred anywhere,
but would like to find out more about it.


"Ron Button" wrote in message
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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
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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