1000z SSE F2 1600m BR 8St002 06.6/06.2 1024.4
RMK: Vis improving slowly

Philip Eden
Luton (Round Green) 155m

1000z SSE F2 1600m BR 8St002 06.6/06.2 1024.4
RMK: Vis improving slowly
1200z S F2 3000m BR 8St004 07.2/06.4 1023.8

Philip Eden
Luton (Round Green) 155m

1000z SSE F2 1600m BR 8St002 06.6/06.2 1024.4
RMK: Vis improving slowly
1200z S F2 3000m BR 8St004 07.2/06.4 1023.8
1600z SSW F1-2 8km HZ 3Sc030 5Ac100 6Ci250 07.2/04.5 1022.8
RMK: A multi-layered, multi-shaded sky. Even some COTRA.
Clouds began to lift around 1345z, flashes of sunshine from 1515z
Chunk of ice on the lawn has finally melted.

Philip Eden
Luton (Round Green) 155m

1000z SSE F2 1600m BR 8St002 06.6/06.2 1024.4
RMK: Vis improving slowly
1200z S F2 3000m BR 8St004 07.2/06.4
1023.8
1600z SSW F1-2 8km HZ 3Sc030 5Ac100 6Ci250 07.2/04.5 1022.8
RMK: A multi-layered, multi-shaded sky. Even some COTRA.
Clouds began to lift around 1345z, flashes of sunshine from 1515z
Chunk of ice on the lawn has finally melted.
1800z SSE F1-2 10km 3Ac100 6Ci 250 05.8/03.8 1022.7
RMK The atmosphere's rather smelly this evening: a whiff of London?

Philip Eden
Luton (Round Green) 155m

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
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1800z SSE F1-2 10km 3Ac100 6Ci 250 05.8/03.8
1022.7
RMK The atmosphere's rather smelly this evening: a whiff of
London?

Philip Eden
Luton (Round Green) 155m

.... interesting! BBC South were reporting over the past couple of days a
'gas-leak' like smell; had the local gas people out etc., but our local
weather person has been putting it down to possible pollution. With a
southeasterly, it *may* be and we did get these scares in the winter
when I worked in central London. Usually traced back to Belgian or NE
French industrial sources. In this case though (at least at the start of
the event), the wind direction was wrong - so they have been chasing
about Hampshire for other sources of pollution.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/h...re/4174801.stm

Martin.


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Philip Eden wrote:
1000z SSE F2 1600m BR 8St002 06.6/06.2 1024.4
RMK: Vis improving slowly
1200z S F2 3000m BR 8St004 07.2/06.4
1023.8
1600z SSW F1-2 8km HZ 3Sc030 5Ac100 6Ci250 07.2/04.5 1022.8
RMK: A multi-layered, multi-shaded sky. Even some COTRA.
Clouds began to lift around 1345z, flashes of sunshine from 1515z
Chunk of ice on the lawn has finally melted.
1800z SSE F1-2 10km 3Ac100 6Ci 250 05.8/03.8 1022.7
RMK The atmosphere's rather smelly this evening: a whiff of London?


If on a light evening (before street lights are lit) you travel a little
way up the A6 to Barton, then turn right toward Hitchin, it is possible
to look back over Luton from that hillside. On such evenings one may
observe the yellowish 'fog' which floats over the town - maybe it is
visible all the time (when daylight) but I do not know that.

It is not as bad as the similar 'fog' which hovers over St. Helens
although according to a friend of mine who lives there, St. Helens is
the most (air) polluted town in England.

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Gianna Stefani

www.buchan-meteo.org.uk

"Gianna Stefani" wrote in message
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Philip Eden wrote:
RMK The atmosphere's rather smelly this evening: a whiff of London?

If on a light evening (before street lights are lit) you travel a little
way up the A6 to Barton, then turn right toward Hitchin, it is possible to
look back over Luton from that hillside. On such evenings one may observe
the yellowish 'fog' which floats over the town - maybe it is visible all
the time (when daylight) but I do not know that.

It is not as bad as the similar 'fog' which hovers over St. Helens
although according to a friend of mine who lives there, St. Helens is the
most (air) polluted town in England.

Gianna, that is the hillside upon which I live. The yellow-brown
pollution haze which you mention is only occasionally visible ...
on days of light or no wind with high RH and otherwise good
visibility ... and comprises diesel fumes along the line of the M1
which parallels the western horizon as viewed from up here.
Otherwise Luton is no more polluted than any other town in
Southeast England now that all the manufacturing industry has
gone, much as some might like to think otherwise :-p

Philip Eden

1000z SSE F2 1600m BR 8St002 06.6/06.2 1024.4
RMK: Vis improving slowly
1200z S F2 3000m BR 8St004 07.2/06.4
1023.8
1600z SSW F1-2 8km HZ 3Sc030 5Ac100 6Ci250 07.2/04.5 1022.8
RMK: A multi-layered, multi-shaded sky. Even some COTRA.
Clouds began to lift around 1345z, flashes of sunshine from 1515z
Chunk of ice on the lawn has finally melted.
1800z SSE F1-2 10km 3Ac100 6Ci 250 05.8/03.8 1022.7
RMK The atmosphere's rather smelly this evening: a whiff of London?
2300z SE F1-2 10km 3Ac120 7Ci250 04.9/03.5 1022.0

Philip Eden
Luton (Round Green) 155m

Gianna, that is the hillside upon which I live. The yellow-brown
pollution haze which you mention is only occasionally visible ...
on days of light or no wind with high RH and otherwise good
visibility ... and comprises diesel fumes along the line of the M1
which parallels the western horizon as viewed from up here.
Otherwise Luton is no more polluted than any other town in
Southeast England now that all the manufacturing industry has
gone, much as some might like to think otherwise :-p

Philip Eden
The pollution I used to experience in St Albans when the wind was in the
north was the sulphurous smell from the Bedfordshire brick works and I
presume this was also noticeable in Luton. In recent years this does not
seem to have occurred which is either due to the works closure or emission
control - probably the former given the collapse of manufacturing industry.

Alan