On Monday, 27 June 2016 23:24:44 UTC+1, Colin Youngs wrote:
Brussels on Monday 27th June 2016

Cloudy morning with light rain for a couple of hours over midday. Brighter in the afternoon with broken cloud and sunny intervals, but a light shower at 18.00 local time. Light to moderate SW to WSW wind decreased and veered NW, and then NE, in the evening.

Brussels Uccle 19.9°C - overnight minimum 11.5°C – and 2 mm rain
Brussels Airport 19.8°C - overnight minimum 11.9°C - and 1 mm

Brussels Airport http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/EBBR.html

Brussels Uccle Graphs http://deus.irceline.be/~celinair/me...an=nl&sta=T1R0

Rainfall radar http://www.buienradar.nl/afgelopen-24-uur

OGIMET monthly summary for Brussels Uccle http://tinyurl.com/jhrpqzf

Webcam Grand-Place http://www.brussels.be/artdet.cfm?id=4664&FMT=18

Webcam Uccle http://www.meteo.be/meteo/view/en/15...cam+Uccle.html

Brussels skyline webcam http://www.sheratonbrusselsview.com/

Colin Youngs
Brussels

I don't suppose anyone has noticed the regularity of the events indulged in.. Too busy discussing the politics of the separate nations being deluged?

But the fact is that although it is impossible for quasi autonomous volcano watching web-sites to keep track (especially when they bugger off on holiday to view them) the blue skies and starry nights have been provided by volcanic activity.

Anticyclones creating an anomaly tend to visit us in the North Atlantic coincident with the increase in energy from a Blocking low which is itself something of an anomaly. (Not a lot of people know that. Which is, of course, their own fault -rather than mine.)

All too often we forget the abysmal depressions that preceded them: Overcast skies that just never seem to clear. Half a century ago we would have been visited by plagues wiping out old and young with lung related diseases. In the 1950's we passed the Clean Air Act. London local councils had to stop people burning coal in their fires.

Over the last 50 years we became a nation with double glazing and central heating. When I was a boy all houses had windows made with machine polished glass that was only 3 millimetres thick -less than 1/4 of an inch and there was no roof insulation nor cavity wall insulation. You can't imagine how dirty the air was.

People forget.