As others have said, its looking a bit murky here in Manchester. Wondering about postponing my lunchtime run as I don't fancy inhaling this stuff. Or is it only present at high altitudes? Any thoughts?
> As others have said, its looking a bit murky here in Manchester. Wondering about postponing my lunchtime run as I don't fancy inhaling this stuff. Or is it only present at high altitudes? Any thoughts?
I could smell it in the air when I popped out for lunch!!
True. Although now that most of the darn satanic mills have been converted to avocado toast cafes we have reasonably good air.
I did notice that the pigeons that always hang out near the duck pond seem to have left. And the sun through the clouds was orange-red, which I suspect is a sign that Cthulhu is riding in on the storm to devour the survivors.
> It's been a long way from the Sahara, to have suck dust up from there.
It's got nothing to do with 'Saharan dust' despite what the papers claim. It is mostly dust, smoke and ashes from the wildfires raging in Portugal and Galicia. You can even smell it down in London.
> It's got nothing to do with 'Saharan dust' despite what the papers claim. It is mostly dust, smoke and ashes from the wildfires raging in Portugal and Galicia. You can even smell it down in London.
Well that's depressing. Wildfires raging round huge swathes of the southwestern USA and southern Europe, two really powerful hurricanes with the season hardly begun, and still f*## all happening to slow climate change . After me the flood and all that sort of thing (bangs head repeatedly against wall)
> Not saying it's not true but, Ophelia must be a very good sucker!
BBC weather presenter Simon King said it was due to the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia dragging in tropical air and dust from the Sahara.
He added that debris from forest fires in Portugal and Spain was also playing a part.
> BBC weather presenter Simon King said it was due to the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia dragging in tropical air and dust from the Sahara.
> He added that debris from forest fires in Portugal and Spain was also playing a part.
If you read the last paragraph in that article, it says "The Met Office said the "vast majority" of the dust was as a result of forest fires in Iberia, which have sent debris into the air and that has been dragged north by Ophelia."
I took the dog out here in Nottinghamshire at about 2:30pm. The light had been weird for about two hours, orange and reds in one direction, a vert strange cloud formation in an other and black as night in another. Cars has lights on and it was very warm. Cleared up by about 4pm.
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