contrails

The sky at 7:30 this morning - already blemished by seven contrails. Although the current price of oil is painful - both for driving and heating water and the house, a welcome side effect might be fewer flights, and hence less cloud cover and annoying disturbance of what should be peaceful countryside!

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks grounded all flights, there was a significant decrease in cloud cover - as you can read here.