Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Inverted FM reception

In his Weather Eye column last Thursday Paul Simons mentioned that, during an Indian Summer, the atmosphere tends to settle into a temperature inversion, at least in the type of summer originally described in North America by John de Crevecoeur in 1778, which was characterised by ‘general smokiness’.

I deduce that our current Indian Summer produced a similar inversion which has been disrupting the FM signal. Planes flying overhead have been producing an especially irritating buzz, noticeable on all stations but particularly Radio 3.