GREAT STORM
HAVOC IN BRITISH HOLIDAY RESORTS DENSE FOG IN CHANNEL. SHIPPING HELD UP IN STRAITS OF DOVER. (British Official Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, August 5. The great storm reported yesterday moved east, but missed London. It passed over northern holiday resorts today, causing much havoc. The temperature in ' London, after starting several degrees cooler than yesterday, mounted again after luncheon and in the late afternoon was several degrees higher, despite the prevailing overcast conditions. Fog was experienced in a number of districts and was so dense in the Channel that shipping was held up in the Straits of Dover and between the North Foreland and South Foreland. People in Deal, standing on the beach, could not even see the water. Mist and fog delayed the continuation of the home defence air exercises, but active operations were resumed at 2 p.m. The weather, however, is still bad, and the Eastland plan had to be considerably modified.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1938, Page 5
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