This afternoon I could see the Purbeck hills in Dorset, from
Lee-on-the Solent. That's 37 - 38 miles looking straight down the
western Solent and is something i haven't often seen. Visibility "in
excess of 38 miles" from old shipping forecasts comes to mind... and
it was certainly that, today. Snapshot below, 300mm zoom, the two
boats are Red Funnel ferries passing each other, 4.5 miles away with
Purbeck to their left (likely Durlston which seems to be floating, to
Nine Barrow Down) http://tinyurl.com/yj8p23e (Purbecks)

Which reminded me, there was a gorgeous sunset yesterday - I had to
drive like a maniac 2 miles to Warsash to catch it properly and sadly
missed the best bit by a few minutes, when _all_ the clouds in shot
were coloured red and pink. http://tinyurl.com/ylm8cx8 (Sunset)

Otherwise, compared to yesterday, today was slightly disappointing,
there was too much cloud around for my liking. Yesterday was like
summer all over again.

Dave
Fareham West

On Oct 14, 9:45*pm, Dave Ludlow
wrote:
This afternoon I could see the Purbeck hills in Dorset, from
Lee-on-the Solent. That's 37 - 38 miles looking straight down the
western Solent and is something i haven't often seen. Visibility "in
excess of 38 miles" from old shipping forecasts comes to mind... and
it was certainly that, today. Snapshot below, *300mm zoom, the two
boats are Red Funnel ferries passing each other, 4.5 miles away with
Purbeck to their left (likely Durlston which seems to be floating, to
Nine Barrow Down)http://tinyurl.com/yj8p23e(Purbecks)

Which reminded me, there was a gorgeous sunset yesterday - I had to
drive like a maniac 2 miles to Warsash to catch it properly and sadly
missed the best bit by a few minutes, when _all_ the clouds in shot
were coloured red and pink.http://tinyurl.com/ylm8cx8(Sunset)

Otherwise, compared to yesterday, today was slightly disappointing,
there was too much cloud around for my liking. Yesterday was like
summer all over again.

Dave
Fareham West

Yes I know what you mean about the cloud, and about Monday and
Tuesday. Good demonstration of the effect of habituation of
temperature too: 17C can feel wintry in July yet positively summer
like in October or April. Would be happy for the high pressure
conditions to carry on as long as possible, at least until 25th
October where I suppose we've got to admit summer's ended once and for
all. Still not that long then till Feb and spring arguably begins down
here...

BTW I've seen the Purbecks from Bow Hill, above Chichester, before so
I guess that's about the limit.

Nick

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:13:34 -0700 (PDT), Nick
wrote:

On Oct 14, 9:45*pm, Dave Ludlow
wrote:
This afternoon I could see the Purbeck hills in Dorset, from
Lee-on-the Solent. That's 37 - 38 miles looking straight down the
western Solent and is something i haven't often seen.

BTW I've seen the Purbecks from Bow Hill, above Chichester, before so
I guess that's about the limit.

You'd have been looking _precisely_ over my head in Lee, and on down
the Western Solent like me. So that's about 55 miles line of sight,
excellent. From where I was, down on the beach, there is nothing
further to be seen; it's nice to be on the limit occasionally.

--
Dave

On Oct 15, 12:22*am, Dave Ludlow
wrote:
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:13:34 -0700 (PDT), Nick

wrote:
On Oct 14, 9:45*pm, Dave Ludlow
wrote:
This afternoon I could see the Purbeck hills in Dorset, from
Lee-on-the Solent. That's 37 - 38 miles looking straight down the
western Solent and is something i haven't often seen.

BTW I've seen the Purbecks from Bow Hill, above Chichester, before so
I guess that's about the limit.

You'd have been looking _precisely_ over my head in Lee, *and on down
the Western Solent like me. So that's about 55 miles line of sight,
excellent. From where I was, down on the beach, there is nothing
further to be seen; it's nice to be on the limit occasionally. *

--
Dave

I wonder if you can ever see France from the Purbecks? ISTR this
coming up before and someone saying the hills were *just about* too
low, but it was a narrow thing. Don't think it's that much more than
55 miles from Purbeck to Cherbourg, maybe 60 or 70?

Nick