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Sulphur cloud over UK

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DustyLee123 · 25/08/2024 07:47

Sorry if this is on another thread, but I couldn’t see one.
Daily Mail reporting sulphur cloud over the UK, and people to avoid going out. Particularly people with chest complaints.

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ChaChaChaChanges · 25/08/2024 07:51

Not according to the government website: uk-air.defra.gov.uk/forecasting/

Solymoly · 25/08/2024 07:56

There was also one reported earlier in the year, if it was anything it would be on the BBC, there probably is a cloud but the DM is likely making much more of it than it is, like the heatwaves and deep freezes.

CoffeandTiaMaria · 25/08/2024 08:00

There’s a stiff breeze here so I can’t imagine it’s going to affect anyone here (south Gloucestershire)

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shellyleppard · 25/08/2024 08:02

If it was that bad why didn't the national alert thingy go off??? Apparently the UK would have been covered in the early hours. Not opened the curtains yet to check

WaystarRoy · 25/08/2024 08:04

Completely blue skies in Somerset ….

scalt · 25/08/2024 08:07

Daily Mail, did you say? That paragon of truth?

Magnolia1234 · 25/08/2024 08:12

Is there a Europe-wide site? The one I found stopped publishing maps in 2015.

Marseillaise · 25/08/2024 08:21

No other major news source seems to have picked this up, and even the Mail can't work out too much doom-mongering about it.

amoreoamicizia · 25/08/2024 08:24

Should we open the windows or not? I usually air the house every morning 🤔

violetsparkle · 25/08/2024 08:34

Thanks for that I read the article but there's no source for the warning? It's really weird. I've googled and can't see anything else about it.

alloalloallo · 25/08/2024 08:44

The volcano in Iceland has erupted again - I follow a Facebook group and someone posted this map in a post about a sulphur cloud yesterday.

It came from this website - https://www.windy.com/-SO2-tcso2?tcso2,52.483,-1.802,5

I don’t know whether the settings I chose will stick, but you can pick SO2 in the settings.

I’ve not seen anything anywhere else though.

Sulphur cloud over UK
DeliciousApples · 25/08/2024 10:04

It's staring to come up in searches now.

Daily Mail for example says "from one hour ago":

Britain has this morning been engulfed with a huge cloud of sulphur dioxide spread from the volcanic eruption in Iceland, according to a weather map. A huge cloud of SO2 completely covered the country by 4am with it still covering half of the UK at 8.45am, data by Czech weather portal Windy showed.

violetsparkle · 25/08/2024 11:31

Anyone smell it yet?

Solymoly · 25/08/2024 11:43

According to that link that @alloalloallo kindly posted, it's passing away to the east now but hanging around Scotland most of the day and some of tomorrow

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