What is with the idea that England has a lot of fog all the time? I live in England and I see fog maybe twice a year. You've all been watching too many movies or something.
2006-07-24 15:20:52 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ United Kingdom ➔ Other - United Kingdom
From the Industrial Revolution until the early 1960s coal was the most used fuel for heating and industry. This lead to impenetrable smogs - read the first chapter of Bleak House, there's a scene where the smog is indoors!
In 1952 a combination of real fog and this smoke caused "the killer smog" in London, thousands of people died, at one stage visibility was 12 inches.
This lead to the passing of the Clean Air Acts for the whole of the UK, and restrictions on the amount of smoke and its colour. After that fog became no more common in the UK that its climate would suggest.
2006-07-26 13:39:55 · answer #1 · answered by UKJess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know where they get these idea's I'm sure. We do have a little fog in November time,but nothing unusual! Someone else on here said its alway's raining?? I wish it would!! We have a drought where I am,and have had for months!! Hardly any rain over the winter months or spring! AND its been very hot here for weeks now!! Instead of listening to tittle- tattle,why don't folk read more about the UK,its weather,its history,and its peoples!! They may just be suprised!!
2006-07-26 10:51:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too many tele programmes and films are definitely to blame for this stereotype. It rains all the time in Plymouth and I never once saw fog, not in London, Kent or the Midlands either.
2006-07-26 10:26:12 · answer #3 · answered by Double 709 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm in Norfolk and see fog sometimes really early in the morning. Other than that it's pretty rare.
2006-07-24 15:25:28 · answer #4 · answered by NikC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beats me..... it's more like California today, here just outside Whitby, North Yorkshire.
May it has something to do with images of the London killer fog / smog of 1952
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_1952
2006-07-25 00:21:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My cousins are from there. They said it rains all the time. Maybe the fog is from the rain.
2006-07-24 15:23:53 · answer #6 · answered by Ruby 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am taking a very wild guess.
It is foggy and I think it is cause of the all the lakes.
2006-07-24 15:24:43 · answer #7 · answered by run_it4 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep it is a nice warm clear night here, up Durham way.
2006-07-24 15:23:28 · answer #8 · answered by tattie_herbert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been in England once, and it was a cold foggy day.
2006-07-24 15:22:32 · answer #9 · answered by wildgroovymunky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what is with the idea that everyone in Texas wears cowboy hats and has a horse?
2006-07-24 15:23:17 · answer #10 · answered by pamela_d_99 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋