On Thursday, November 27, 2014 8:07:54 AM UTC, haaark wrote:
On Wednesday, 26 November 2014 19:48:40 UTC, Bernard Burton wrote:
Some weeks ago there was a thread about the penetration of sea spray
inland. I have just come across this discussion in the Met Mag for 1928
where published examples are given from the end of the 19th century. I have
put a pdf file copy on my website in case anyone is interested.

http://www.woksat.info/wwp/seaspray3.pdf

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Bernard Burton

Wokingham Berkshire.

When I was in vet. practice in Cornwall it was nothing to find my windscreen coated in salt while working near the N. coast-and this was with a S. gale, and not at the thinnest part of the peninsula either. And I've seen gobbets of sea-foam at least ten miles inland.


Yes indeed. there is no doubt that it is not unusual for sea spray to cover much of the western half of Cornwall. I've had my car covered in salt in just 2 hours parked at Truro, with the sky a milky blue and visibility significantly affected all the way from Penzance. Going from here west to Sennen you sometimes have to repeatedly clean the salt off the windscreen. A big ground sea is as important as the wind, the conditions where you see clouds of spray rising over the cliff tops.

See http://www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk/ps.html for a ground sea at Praa Sands generating large amounts of spray & foam.

Graham
Penzance (cracking sunrise)