fireworks and bonfire night

[Chris Knight]

Apart from fog in UK, do national firework celebrations cause short term weather perturbations? Other examples might be Chinese New Year, 4th July in USA etc.

[Nick F]

Just moving this to Misc. Weather ...

Can't say I've come across such correlations I'm afraid, though I can see how the smoke particles can develop more water droplet nucleii, hence maybe greater chance of fog, than otherwise would be the case.

[andy_leics22]

I always find that Bonfire night is misty and foggy, I know most of it is down to firework and bonfire smoke but this year we had a misty saturday night when most people did fireworks and then sunday night when there wasnt as many here it was the thickest fog I had saw, could hardly see over the road it was that dense!

[Nick H]

The weather has been very good in recent years on Bonfire Night, I'm thinking in particular of the Saturdays rather than the 5th. It's a long time since we had a wash out.