Pea soup fog (also known as a pea souper, black fog or killer fog) is a very thick and often yellowish, greenish or blackish fog caused by air pollution that contains soot particulates and …

Dec 9, 2024 · On Dec. 4, a high pressure system moved in, reducing winds and trapping the smog for days, causing "pea-soup" conditions where the smog appeared yellow or green due …

Dec 6, 2012 · Fog, combined with smoke to produce smog, was nothing new in London, but this particular “pea souper” quickly thickened into a poisonous stew unlike anything the city had …

Sep 16, 2016 · In fact, a Londoner coined the term "smog" in 1905 to describe the city's insidious combination of natural fog and coal smoke. By then, the phenomenon was part of London …

Dec 1, 2023 · In this real-life crisis, thousands of Londoners died from five days of heavy fog laced with air pollution. When the fog appears, it is met with British understatement. A weather report …

Dec 6, 2012 · Such were the scenes during the Great Smog of London, which began 60 years ago today. A thick, greasy, grimy fog descended on the city and killed 12,000 people in four …

Known as “pea-soupers” for their dense, yellow appearance, such all-encompassing fogs had become a hallmark of London by the 19th century. But polluted fog was an issue in London as …

Nov 2, 2023 · Pea soup fog is a name given to an extremely thick and often yellowish, greenish or blackish fog caused by air pollution containing soot particulates and sulfur dioxide. It has also …

Nov 11, 2015 · The fog was unable to escape and the presence of the tarry particles from the cheap sulphurous coal gave the smog an acrid smell and a yellow-black colour – hence the …

Mar 21, 2012 · On several occasions, people fell in the Thames and drowned because they could not see the river right in front of them. And so, for obvious reasons, the thick London smog …