Talk:Pea soup fog

No longer occurs
May be worth pointing out that they no longer occur. Every North American seems to believe that Britain is swirling in fogs much of the time. Its not true. 78.149.173.243 (talk) 10:20, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅JamesMcArdle 04:12, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Do you have a source that this type of phenomenon no longer occurs? And what you said about Americans is your opinion, and not fact, BTW.     ArcAngel    (talk) ) 18:57, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Hard to prove a negative, but it is clear that the Clean Air Act did have the desired effect. And a talk page seems a reasonable place to express an opinion. 122.107.58.27 (talk) 03:47, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, us Yanks don't have a Clean Air Act so the phenomenon still occurs here, but since it's a byproduct of nature how can you say that it WON'T reappear in your neck of the woods?    ArcAngel    (talk) ) 20:21, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
 * It was not a by-product of nature, but a result of the burning of coal for domestic heating, which no longer occurs. Didnt you read the article? 92.29.124.202 (talk) 09:45, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes stories mention fog often enough - I wouldn't say contrary to popular impression Particularly this passage from The Sign of the Four I think sets the atmosphere : It was a September evening and not yet seven o’clock, but the day had been a dreary one, and a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city. Mud-coloured clouds drooped sadly over the muddy streets. Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement. The yellow glare from the shop-windows streamed out into the steamy, vaporous air and threw a murky, shifting radiance across the crowded thoroughfare. There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghostlike in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light–sad faces and glad, haggard and merry. Like all humankind, they flitted from the gloom into the light and so back into the gloom once more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.19.168.206 (talk) 23:51, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Proposal to remove File:Pea souper in Western Sydney.jpg from the head of the article.
Pea-Soupers do occur in other cities of the world than London, but it was in London that the term originates as demonstrated in the article. Therefore, with respect to the image uploader, I suggest that the image of Sydney is not relevant enough to be placed at the top of the article and propose either to relocate it to lower in the article, or remove it. Do others agree? JamesMcArdle 11:22, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Given that sufficient time has elapsed, I have removed the Sydney photograph. JamesMcArdle 07:27, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

What is Sea-Coal
There are two links two different links to "sea-coal" in this article, one to Coal#History and one to the wiktionary entry sea-coal. Both articles give two different definitions, for what seems to me like a total of four(!) different definitions. Could somebody please clear up the fog around this term? Tasimnal (talk) 13:34, 14 February 2024 (UTC)