"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
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Without drawing global warming into it, do you have an impression that
certain weather types, if any, in your area have become less frequent.
Until this week I would have said gales and that probably is still true to
a large extent. The lack of snow showers off the North Sea, particularly
any giving significant falls of snow and perhaps violent thunderstorms
with associated downpours and flash flooding are the most significant
here.

Dave, S.Essex


Fog (and freezing fog) definitely. I remember the smogs of the 50's - in a
charabanc bound for an ice pantomime featuring Norman Wisdom in (maybe)
1953 - yellow smog so thick in London that I could not see the end of the
bonnet! But also in the early seventies country fog seemed more common. I
remember droving home to Yately and could not see the white line at the edge
of the road - very scary (especially for my lady) - can't remember that
density of fog happening since.

Also much less thunder - and less thundery outbreaks up from France.

Bracknell Weather at: http://www.weatherfamily.org/bracknell
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