Across the UK, across continental North America and around the world on the internet by webcast

and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes and this is the unexplained.

Well, we are past mid-summer now, well into July as I record this, a beautiful warm,

stroke hot day and we've had weeks and weeks of them and really the summer got off to a

very early start with some very hot weather.

It's continued warm or hot.

For most of it very little rain, lot of cloud and some very bad air quality.

But for the first time I've noticed in London, you know people have talked about it for years

and it's never really affected me until this year.

The view live around here maybe it's affecting YouTube but I'm finding that it's sometimes

the air is thick and I really noticed it.

I'll tell you when, when I drove to Liverpool did my radio show from there and then decided

to drive back over a couple of days through Wales and the air there was so clean that I got

back to London and 50 miles from London, it was a hot day, you started noticing that the

air quality was not good and the sky was a bit hazy.

Now I remember seeing that in Los Angeles, I remember approaching Los Angeles from the

San Diego direction and this brown cloud hangs over LA and the air quality is not as good

especially around the peak driving times, that's more than drive, evening drive.

And I think we're starting to experience that kind of thing here in London with a lot

of still warm air, sometimes it ain't good and this time I'm 15 or 16 miles out of the

centre of London so I'm not exactly in the centre of it all but it's something that we

have to become aware of I think.

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