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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
I visited the Great Birr Telescope in Ireland about 10 years ago and commented to the person running the place about the problems with cloud and how it's amazing they did anything. The person running place said that lots of the persistent high-level haze is actually amalgamated con-trails from all the trans-Atlantic jets and so things were better in the 19th C. I don't know if that is true or whether it applies to England but I could see how it might be true. Even then, I read somewhere that they got the most clear skies in winter, when frost was falling. Great.
Yes, I don't believe there is anywhere else where you can get the combination of great outdoors, an (often  ) suitable climate, ease of access but still relatively few people and relative safety (our search and rescue is as good as anywhere and no one shoots at you). |
Absolutely. I grew up in Cornwall (South West England) and the transatlantic air traffic was thick.
It would turn an otherwise bluebird day into a light blue haze. You rarely get the deep blue skies we get here - except for when the jetstreams were blowing really hard.