London looking amazing

[Nick Armstrong]

http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2013/12/11/23-dazzling-photos-of-the-fog-enveloping-london/

PS: http://now-here-this.timeout.com/201...n-in-november/

[mercia]

Buck Palace with the sun behind rather looks as if one is entering Valhalla
unhappy memories of that Blackheath church since I was once mugged and kicked black-and-blue just outside

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

truly bootiful

[Nick Armstrong]

unhappy memories of that Blackheath church since I was once mugged and kicked black-and-blue just outside

[johnb]

Some of those fog photos have an almost Turner-esque feel.

[Sir Velo]

Some of those fog photos have an almost Turner-esque feel.

Or Monet who was the great painter of fog-bound London, of course.

[Serial_Apologist]

Or Monet who was the great painter of fog-bound London, of course.

By which time, London was already one big Monet-making machine.

[Flosshilde]

Buck Palace with the sun behind rather looks as if one is entering Valhalla

I'd be happy to set fire to it.

[teamsaint]

I'd be happy to set fire to it.

i'd be happy if it housed an appropriate number of families.


All the time.

[Nick Armstrong]

By which time, London was already one big Monet-making machine.

How Manet times have you cracked that one, I wonder?!

I always suspected you had feet of Klee, S_A...

Nonetheless, Cézanne's Greetings to you!

[amateur51]

I'd be happy to set fire to it.

Poor Queenie - hot nuts!

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/12/queen-police-royal-wedding-nuts-phone-hacking-trial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETFtOirbfCQ

[BBMmk2]

looks really surreal in places!

[Stillhomewardbound]

unhappy memories of that Blackheath church since I was once mugged and kicked black-and-blue just outside

Sorry to hear that, Mercia. If it's any consolation I was duffed up myself on the other side of the heath.

Btw, to any meteorologlist types on here. Were there are particular circumstances to this particular fog? I've never seen such London pictures before with the fog firmly pinned down at such a love level and with such consistency.

[Serial_Apologist]

Sorry to hear that, Mercia. If it's any consolation I was duffed up myself on the other side of the heath.

Btw, to any meteorologlist types on here. Were there are particular circumstances to this particular fog? I've never seen such London pictures before with the fog firmly pinned down at such a love level and with such consistency.

The fog would have been pegged down at that level by a temperature inversion, SHB, which is quite usual in high pressure systems. At school I used to run up into the greensand hills in Surrey, and many were the times when I would be in bright, warm winter sunshine at about 600 feet altitude, looking down into a woolly sea of fog stretched out beneath, where temperatures would be below freezing, and trees and shrubs enveloped in rime. The height of the inversion level - about 300 feet by all accounts in this instance - varies according to micro factors, including barometric strength and changes with height, distributions of humidity, and any air movement.

[JimD]

Or Monet who was the great painter of fog-bound London, of course.

Oop north we are partial to a bit of Atkinson Grimshaw. But I suppose it's not strictly fog, and we are a bit Grim up here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Atkinson_Grimshaw