There was an item on the BBC Lunchtime news today about the painter Monet
who was fascinated by the London Fogs and who used to come to London in the
wintertime to paint the foggy scenes.
This reminded me that I didn't get any foggy mornings here in 2004. This
must be a very unique event. I certainly don't ever remember any previous
year without a morning fog and this is going back to the 1940s. I remember
that in 1949 I noted at least 10 foggy mornings in October and I used to
keep a watch to see when the first all day fog occurred. There was usually
at least one before the end of November. I used to reckon that if a fog
lasted through the school 'Dinner Hour' it would last all day. If it got
really thick in the afternoon we would be sent home early!
Remembering the smoke pollution from domestic coal fires up until the 1970s,
I suggest that 2004's fog free year may have been the first in this area
since before Victorian times.
Peter Clarke
Ewell , Epsom, 55m.

Certainly in terms of service provision at Heathrow, the number of days
affected by fog (which means Cloud ceiling 200ft or RVR 600m or less) has
reduced dramatically in recent years. There always seemed to be fog when the
Tridents were doing their autolands.....
What has increased is the number of days affected by wind...(unsurprisingly
less fog then)...
Affect of Global warming ?

Phil

Affect of Global warming ?

Look North also *insinuated* today that lack of clouds was actually
"global warming"!:-o

LOL. In February 1994, sky was virtually clear of ALL clouds, and, with
all that snow on the ground, beginning essentially the mid-1990s colder
period of weather, no one back then talked about global warming, except
maybe Michael Jackson!:-o ;-)

Yep, slight fog setting in here tonight, ONCE AGAIN(!).:-o :-o

D.