Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, there's hugely less airbourne pollution in the UK today than there was in the 1950s, when everybody burned coal. The Clean Air Act and numerous other laws targetted at industrial waste, for example, have meant that London's "pea soup" fogs don't exist any more. To give another example, the city of Leeds was successfully bombed just once in the Second World War - the rest of the time the smog was so bad it couldn't be seen! I remember the shock 30 years ago when they cleaned the Leeds University clock tower - it was white underneath, not the grey-black it had always been! So there isn't as much industrial residue as there used to be. Northants is not particularly close to the coast (although nowhere in the UK is that far - the central point of England is about five miles away from where I'm tying this, and that's comfortably under 200 miles from the sea - but it's a fairly rural county without huge amounts of industry. Where I live - more or less next door in Warwickshire - is very similar to the landscape we see time and again from GeeBee - the gently rolling typically English countryside. What I don't get is how he always manages to have such wonderful cloud formations - every time I go out around here, the sky is either featureless blue or white, and that's not haze! Nick ----- Original Message ---- From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@bellsouth.net> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, 12 June, 2006 5:49:27 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] What GeeBee might see Ric, You are correct about the haze. When I started flying in the late 1950s, visibility was much better than it is today. The haze hides the cloud contrast, except for about one day when a cold front passes. I assume that the seacoasts are close enough to GB to keep his horizons free of industrial residue. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information