Something which has been niggling at the back of my mind for a while now (in fact, since I moved up to Blackpool and started flying by the coast regularly). You can tell by the fact that it's taken me a year to ask the question that it's not that important, but......
Flying by the coast on a hazy day (8-10km viz, or maybe slightly more), a couple of miles inland, and heading towards the coast. Whilst still a little way from the coast, there is no visible horizon - the sea and the sky just merge into one. But as you get closer and closer to the coast, the horizon becomes more and more clear, with a very defniite colour change between the sea and the sky. The difference in colour gets more marked the closer to the coast you get.
Does anyone have any explaination, other than optical illusion? I can not think of any reason why this should be the case, but I have seen it dozens, probably getting on for hundreds, of times.
Or, alternatively, does anyone have any other strange unexplainable met phenomina to keep the trivia-masters amused until they can go flying again?
FFF
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