Not for burning

[jack.h...@gmail.com]

Some education needed.  For the past few days here in my area there has been scarcely a breath of wind with low cloud / fog and 100% humidly.  Yet people are having bonfires, wood burning stoves.  The pollution is just trapped.

I go back to old days of straw burning.  It quite rightly got a very bad name when the smoke hung around and caused dangerously poor visibility.  There were road accidents and that led to the practice being stopped. 

An arable farmer I knew had never understood - until I explained - that hot days are often the very worst for burning.  They are probably hot because of an inversion and the air can't rise so is trapped near the ground and the temperature rises.  Neighbours, who knew I was a glider pilot, would say "This hot weather must be ideal".  I had to explain that it was usually (not always) very poor for gliding.

I'm not sure how the public can be educated as to when it is a bad time to burn.  I had thought that in the straw / stubble burning era, TV weather forecasts could so easily have said "This is BAD day for burning."

Meanwhile, I can 'enjoy' the smell of nearby rubbish being burnt.

[jack.h...@gmail.com]

I've just been out for a walk - or more correctly, a wheel.  Reminder.

The farm just along the road has a bonfire, with the smoke just drifting (towards my bungalow).  No wonder there has been a smell of burning rubbish, especially plastic.

Jack