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I went out about 4.40 the sky was beautiful, went to visit somebody.. Ended up watching The Sweeney, left about 6.45 I couldn't believe how foggy it was.
Odd innit, when the gentle Easterlies slowly waft their stink in from Port Talbot steelworks, most especially after a previous day of high pressure and no cloud cover, Swansea and Gower stinks like ghastly Port Talbot.
It really ain't rocket science is it.
The steelworks has a lot to answer for nowadays, in so many ways.
Let's hope for more and more prevailing Westerlies.
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Yep, time for one for one more story, 11:55 before midnight.......
Serious question: what harm is the sulphurous stink form Port Talbot Steelworks casting over Swansea Bay ?
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Stink from the steelworks? The steelworks didn't cause the fog and I lived in Mumbles til I was 25 and never once smelt the steelworks. From Skewen I can see the steelworks and we can't smell it here either.
The only time I ever smelt the steelworks was driving past on the motorway.
Why does fog smell,
Profile photo for Honza ChylÃk Honza ChylÃk , postgraduate researcher in modelling atmosphere Answered 5 years ago · Author has 314 answers and 506.3K answer views short answer: because some gasses and dirt gets dissolved in water
explanation:Before I answer this question, I would like to clarify that fog does not smell by default, but just in some specific cases. Now lets have a closer look at the formation and the composition of Fog.
Fog start forming close to ground when there is a combination of high humidity and relatively cold temperature (2.5-4°C). In these conditions, water vapour starts condensing on fine dust particles and other aerosols in the air. Condensed water droplets start growing until they reach some balance with surrounding air. So far good, hardly any smell.
Now we need to take into account that fog often forms in stale weather. Forming fog stops various dust and gasses from escaping from ground further away. Some of gasses and dust particles also got dissolved in the water droplets. If you are close to a city or a farm, various pollutants and aromatic substances get transported to you dissolved inside water droplets of fog. When you breath, your smell receptors in nose catches these small droplet and you smell something.
There you go, it's because of pollution in cities and on farms. The steelworks does smell but you have to be closer than Swansea (and definitely Gower) to smell it.
I grew up in Baglan and we never had issues with smells from the steelworks, in fact I can’t recall smelling the work s in the town centre, the main areas affected were Taibach and Margam. The BP in Baglan Bay was more of an issue, but we hardly ever had smells from there either.
Odd innit, when the gentle Easterlies slowly waft their stink in from Port Talbot steelworks, most especially after a previous day of high pressure and no cloud cover, Swansea and Gower stinks like ghastly Port Talbot.
It really ain't rocket science is it.
The steelworks has a lot to answer for nowadays, in so many ways.
Let's hope for more and more prevailing Westerlies.
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Nothing to do with warm water meeting cold air then?? That’s not rocket science either. It’s science.
Each time I go to Bedd - au........................
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