Londoners Wake Up to 'Unpleasant' Smell as Wind Pattern
And the official word is:
By Alex Morales and Sarah Thompson
By Alex Morales and Sarah Thompson
April 18 (Bloomberg)
Londoners woke up today to an unpleasant smell that the U.K. Met Office said emanated from
continental Europe and spread across southern England.
The odor, which residents described as smelling of manure or rotting garbage, can probably be explained by a shift in the winds from the prevailing west to a more easterly origin, Sarah Holland, a spokeswoman for the Met Office, the government forecaster, said in a telephone interview.
"We've had reports from East Anglia to Reading and Devon of a smell in the air,'' Holland said, adding that "strong" winds are blowing in from the east. "We don't know the exact origins of the air, but it could be from agricultural and industrial processes in continental Europe."
Londoners woke up today to an unpleasant smell that the U.K. Met Office said emanated from
continental Europe and spread across southern England.
The odor, which residents described as smelling of manure or rotting garbage, can probably be explained by a shift in the winds from the prevailing west to a more easterly origin, Sarah Holland, a spokeswoman for the Met Office, the government forecaster, said in a telephone interview.
"We've had reports from East Anglia to Reading and Devon of a smell in the air,'' Holland said, adding that "strong" winds are blowing in from the east. "We don't know the exact origins of the air, but it could be from agricultural and industrial processes in continental Europe."
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