Are you folks in Britain finding the skies remarkably clear due to the lack of air traffic?

I watched a documentary not long ago about the effect of increased amounts of sunlight on the earth’s atmosphere. There was one guy in the US who had been hoping for a way to measure the amount of sunshine but couldn’t due to all the air traffic. Then Sep. 11 happened. He got his instruments out and measured away and his findings were worrying.

So, with air traffic at a standstill most places would see an increase in sunshine.

Never really noticed the planes in the first place. Though thats probably because I don’t live in a high air traffic area. Or the fact that you just get used to it and ignore it anyway. Or just the fact that the sky is boring so I don’t tend to look up there that much. I may as well live on Krikket.

I have a friend in London; she writes that trying to wash her car is difficult due to the grit. And her windshield wipers are not faring very well.

Yes.

I believe it’s similar in parts of the UK, and here in Ireland we’ve had nothing but clear skies for several days (don’t jinx it, don’t jinx it, don’t jinx it….!), so this whole ‘there’s a giant ash cloud above us’ is a bit odd…..

The skies are clear yes, but I have also heard reports here of unusual grit on cars. I’m in London so the peacefulness
is much appreciated.

Clear skies and a fine dusting on cars in Buckinghamshire

We’ve had gorgeous weather recently and the skies during the day and night have been lovely and clear (at least here in the south west) but I thought that was just down to having a spell of nice weather not to the lack of aircraft?!