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Post by Humph on Jun 27, 2018 17:08:48 GMT
I was up and down the M6 today heading to and from Skipton. Nice place Skipton actually. Anyway, on the way back, near Charnock Richard services ish, there was noticeable smoke drifting from the East which smelled of burning peat, I could smell it because my sunroof was open, ( lovely having a sunroof on a day like today by the way 😉 ) Given that even as the crow flies, I must have been more than 15 miles from the fire, it really made me realise what a problem it must be closer in.
My car was telling me that the outside temperature was 30.5C
That's hot for Wigan.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2018 19:26:14 GMT
I came home last night from Bury which is 6 miles north of where I live. Bury was completely clear but home had a terrible smell of burning, the air was quite smokey and it was really impossible to have the windows open even though it was very hot. Sleep did not come easily.
The fires are probably about nine miles due east of where I live although my secretary who lives within a mile of them has suffered no ill effects at all. But then she is south west of them.
This morning the air was completely clear and fresh although at 9:30 driving west along the M62 from Salford the same atmospheric conditions hit me as I had experienced at home last night. It's not easy to drive in.
Luckily no one has been injured and there will probably be no long-lasting effects to the moors as a day or so of rain will bring them back to some form of life. Like after a forest fire they will be renewed fairly quickly and certainly by this time next year we will express wonderment at the new growth which will have appeared.
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Post by Humph on Jun 27, 2018 20:59:41 GMT
It was the burning peat smell that I noticed. Where we used to live in rural Scotland, some people burned peat in their home fires. An oddly attractive and nostalgic side effect to an undoubtedly difficult and dangerous situation.
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