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• 980829 Stubble burning triggers rain Farmers are able to change the weather. It has been done, and it can be demonstrated pretty conclusively how these changes were
• 991106 Where have November fogs gone? November is the leopard that changed its spots. There have been changes in the character of every month of the year during the
• 001202 London fogs London fogs were a constant preoccupation of Victorian writers who lived in the metropolis. Arthur Conan Doyle, for instance, produced an apocalyptic
• 020907 September fogs September means the days are getting shorter, the nights colder and damper, and it is only a matter of time before we have the first seriously foggy
• 021123 The great London smog The fiftieth anniversary of the Great London smog was marked throughout the English media in 2002. It was the greatest meteorological
• 9611xx More on the great London smog One of the big supermarket chains is in trouble - for selling firewood in a smokeless zone. I must, of course, immediately make it
• 030419 Controlling urban pollution The recent combination of spin and smog was not exactly edifying. Environment ministers used the first serious smog episode of the year
• 980329 Saharan dust falls in the UK As a rule, forecasters do not attempt to predict those rare occasions when Saharan dust is transported to British latitudes, although it is
• 011118 Anticyclonic gloom Weather forecasters have a name for it: anticyclonic gloom. It describes exactly the sort of gloomy, foggy, dank weather we get during the
• 011126 Foggy Novembers in London It is all too easy to regard November as a wholly negative month, weather-wise. There is usually an absence of warmth and a shortage
• 020113 Different kinds of fog Meteorologists recognise different sorts of fog and these fall into three broad categories: hill fog, advection fog, and radiation fog. We have seen
• 021124 Does wet ground encourage fog? "… and with all the moisture about after the recent heavy rain, mist and fog patches will probably form later in the night." How many
• 030921 Does dry ground inhibit fog? There is a myth in some forecasting offices around the country that a dry season, such as the one we are experiencing, inevitably
• 0108xx Accidents caused by fog September means the days are getting shorter, the nights colder and damper, and it is only a matter of time before we have the first seriously
• 0111xx When fog turns to smog Dr H A Des Voeux is little known these days although he was, in the first part of the twentieth century, a prominent figure in the fight to limit the
• 9704yy Duststorms in East Anglia We have had all the usual drought stories but I have yet to read a feature on sandstorms in Surrey or dust devils in Devon. Hang on a
• 9711xx The Clean Air Acts London fogs were a constant preoccupation of Victorian writers who lived and worked in the capital. Several, including Robert Barr and Sir Arthur