Do You Get a Lot of Fog Where You Live?

[Paladin1950]

Here in the Mohawk Valley in New York, we get some really foggy mornings where the fog is so thick you, that you have to be on high alert as you drive your car. I can find the street alright that I have to turn on to get to work, but as I drive down that road, I have to drive much slower so I can see the turn off that will take me to the nursing home parking lot. Sometimes even the parking lot has a fog also. Several years ago, when I worked on a later shift, I usually had to drive home in the night. Sometimes there would be fog at night. When there was, you couldn't use your high beams, since that would make the visibility much worse.

Even though I don't enjoy driving in the blazing sun, I prefer that to driving in a fog. At least in the sun, you can see deer if they cross the road, and the Amish horse and buggies.

 

[officerripley]

Not anymore; it’s really changed.

 

[Flarbalard]

Yes. Right now, I'd say visibility is 1/4 mile - which is an improvement over an hour ago.

 

[Jules]

I live in a valley, so yes. Not as much as some of you.

 

[hollydolly]

We don't get a lot per se... but we do get it every year in winter.. for several days or night.... and living as I do on the edge of the woods the fog is very thick.. can't see the car in front and the road through the woods is very hilly, and bendy so you can't see what 's coming the other way on a very narrow 5 mile road ...

 

[PeppermintPatty]

We live on a steep hill near the ocean so sometimes the fog off the water drifts towards us.

 

[TeePee]

I live on a ridge. We usually don't get fog unless it's right after a rain. The funny part is, the ridge will get foggy but when you get downhill a lot of times the fog is gone. The only thing worse than driving in fog is driving on ice. I'm glad I'm retired and don't have to fight the roads.

 

[Imogene]

Yes, if weather conditions are right.

This was at 6:00 AM September, 2024.

 

[Fritz]

where i live it depends on where you live. the closer to a body of water the worse it is. i remember when i lived in the country in this very small community, one night my boss and i had to drive home in fog so thick you couldn't see anything except right directly in front of the front bumper of the car.

i had to follow that little snippet of white strip on the right side of the road and hope i didn't drive off the bridge and hope i managed to find my turn to go home or end up in someone's field. it was terrifying.

 

[Llynn]

I live in a valley between the Coastal Range and the foothills of the Cascade Range. The Pacific is only 40 miles away so fog is common and often thick.

 

[TeePee]

Yes, if weather conditions are right.

This was at 6:00 AM September, 2024.
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It's pretty though, if you don't have to drive in it.

 

[Imogene]

It's pretty though, if you don't have to drive in it.

yes it is. There is an ethereal quiet to the fog, isn’t there?

Thankfully if I do have to go somewhere, it’s late enough the fog has lifted.

 

[Jules]

It's pretty though, if you don't have to drive in it.

Not so nice if your plane is delayed because of it.

 

[jujube]

We rarely get fog and when we do, it doesn't last long.

I love the fog you get along the coasts, especially in the Northeast. When we were spending some time in Maine, I'd stand out and watch the wall of fog come closer and closer on Passamaquoddy Bay. It was like something out of a cheap horror movie. And then it'd be there and it would be like being wrapped in a blanket of mist.

 

[Capt Lightning]

No, it's not very common here.