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Old December 22nd 06, 09:50 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Philip Eden Philip Eden is offline
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"Graham P Davis" wrote:
Jack ) wrote:

I cannot comment on the administrative background to the present
airport chaos, but I throw in this little story.

Just before Christmas 1979, the weather pattern was almost identical to
that at present with widespread fog.


You must be mistaken, Jack. A spokesman (for BAA?) on Radio 5 Breakfast
this
morning that the problems are due to dense fog - dense? - at Heathrow and
that it's unprecedented for it to last so long at this time of year. Of
course that means all the long-lasting freezing fogs that I remember
occurring at this time of year must also be a figment of my imagination.

That's because history began in 1997.

Philip