We get sandstorms from the Sahara but as there is luckily no pollution here it does not cause smog - just scatches spectacle lenses gets everywhere in the house - and you need to keep your mouth shut when out. Probably also scratches cars as well. We also get khamsins, known here as sharavs - which are mostly just dust storms which, together with the heat they bring, do cause some breathing problems at times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khamsin
I'm in London- smog what smog I've seen it on the news but it ain't bovvering us My car was covered in dust the other day just after the OH had spent hours washing and polishing it. I really don't understand his obsession with washing cars, but as long as he doesn't expect me to help he can get on with it. I went to go out the next day and couldn't see through the windscreen, I had half the Sahara desert attached, the washers promptly turned it to mud, delightful It's baking hot and sunny here today and I've been inside putting a bed together in the spare room, which wouldn't have been so bad but like a fool I followed the instructions and they weren't physically possible. So after much sweat and swearing I had to semi dismantle it and work it out for myself. I think I've lost a stone in the process.
Its horrible here poor visibility with occasional rain . I have just been for a walk with Chloe and wouldn't want to spend too long out there, my chest is not that good at the best of times. I learnt my lesson about being careful at Christmas when I had a bad reaction to stage smoke/dry ice at a pantomime
Not here in my part of East Anglia, no. Although according to the weather earlier we was at a high risk.
Oh dear Janet, the wind is from the west today so I guess it will reach you soon. It is a lot better here today after the nights rain so I might risk hanging the washing out and doing a bit in the garden. I had a bad night with wheezing and had to sleep with closed windows which I hate .
I see no smog but there is a funny smell in the air today and my car was covered in muck again but not as bad as the other day.
In cheshire no not a thing. Im in south wales now and its fine. My aunty in norfolk has got a chest infection and her dr said its beause of the smog
I can remember as a child sometimes having to walk the 5 miles home after school as there were no buses running because of the smog. I used to buy myself a 6 penny Cadbury's Caramello bar to keep me going!
It is not "smog" which was a term coined for the mixture of smoke and fog in 1952. It is "smog-like". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog#References Newspapers and their headlines -
