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Whats with the poor air quality?

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  • 20-04-2011 7:19pm
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    ch750536
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    Has been bad for a while but today is the worst. From my elevated position I can see cloud above me, occasional blue skies. Into the valley I have about 2km visibility. Does not seem to be moisture. Slight breeze, NE.


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    thetonynator
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    Very bad here also today, visibility very low.


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    Su Campu
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    It's just haze. It's going to be around a good bit over the next week with the persistent easterlies bringing Europe's pollutants our way, trapped under the subsidence inversion. In summer this haze can hide approaching Spanish Plume thunderstorms until they're almost overhead!


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    mike65
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    I was going to joke you are in Abbeyfeale but yep a SE airflow means haze, a NW aiflow means clear blue skies and then rain.


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    Elmer Blooker
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    Su Campu wrote: »
    It's just haze. It's going to be around a good bit over the next week with the persistent easterlies bringing Europe's pollutants our way, trapped under the subsidence inversion. In summer this haze can hide approaching Spanish Plume thunderstorms until they're almost overhead!
    I've never seen a "Spanish Plume" thunderstorm in this country?
    Our thunderstorms seem to be the homegrown variety. Southern England gets them though as they move north from France but the cold sea around Ireland means they never get as far as us.


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    muckish
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    UnitedKingdom_amo_2011112.jpg

    Quite a lot going on in this satellite image: Haze; Algal blooms, The Haar...

    http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=50214&src=nha


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    thetonynator
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    The Haar?


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    muckish
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    thetonynator wrote: »
    The Haar?
    Coastal fog that affects the North Sea Coast of the UK.


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