Do You Get Bad or Heavy Fog in Your Area?

Paladin1950

Paladin1950

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Years ago, I used to hear about fog in London. I went there 3 times in the 1980's, and never saw any fog. That doesn't mean that they don't it get there, I just never saw any. But in my area of New York, we really get it thick sometimes. When I'm driving to work in the mornings, it gets real thick. I can see the street I have to turn on, but as I'm driving up the street, I have to drive slow so I can see the turnoff on the right hand side, where the nursing home is where I work.

Other times, I'm driving through a thick fog, and all of a sudden, it's gone completely, and everything is clear. Then sometimes, I find myself in more fog.
 

It settles in the low lying Mississippi Delta some late winter/early spring mornings so thickly that visibility is not much more than 5 or 6 feet. It terrifies me to drive in fog that dense. It usually clears up by mid morning is the only thing good I can say about it.
 
Paladin1950 said:
Years ago, I used to hear about fog in London. I went there 3 times in the 1980's, and never saw any fog. That doesn't mean that they don't it get there, I just never saw any. But in my area of New York, we really get it thick sometimes. When I'm driving to work in the mornings, it gets real thick. I can see the street I have to turn on, but as I'm driving up the street, I have to drive slow so I can see the turnoff on the right hand side, where the nursing home is where I work.

Other times, I'm driving through a thick fog, and all of a sudden, it's gone completely, and everything is clear. Then sometimes, I find myself in more fog.
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very rarely get fog...,..but we do get it occasionally because we live in a low valley with woodland all around us, so in winter somethimes the fog can get thick.. but not often.


the worst fog I've ever seen and hope never to see it again.. was in Northern Italy...

It was impossible to see literally in front of you. This was almost tangible.. we could almost feel this in our hands like cotton wool. We were on the motorway when this fog descended in around 1990... and we had to stop the vehicle.. and one person get out and walk directly in front of the car until we could get to safety
 
Haven't seen any here in Pennsylvania. However, I clearly remember this extremely thick fog making my parents' trip from Newark NJ to New York city extremely difficult. Each car was following the others' back light in order to stay on the road. Which meant that if the ones far in front had accidentally swerved into the notoriously foul-smelling bogs, all would have mindlessly followed.
 
I'm in PA and yes, it gets quite foggy. The two worst cases I've seen though... getting trapped on top of the Blue Ridge Parkway in unbelievably dense fog... and on I95 near Savannah. That was extra frightening because a motorcyclist was using the car taillights to stay on the road I kept thinking that if the car goes off the road, so does the cycle. 🥺
 
Some places have a wider range of normal climate variation than others. Our fogs are about the same as always here, but large areas of dense fog occur but aren't common.

It's hilarious to watch the climate decriers. When the lake levels fall a few cm they yell "Told ya so, told ya so!" When they rise to higher than average it's all "Yeah, well mumble mumble measurement errors, mutter mutter, don't count on that lasting. And oh yeah, sea level rise!" They clearly don't know that the lake levels are nearly 600 feet above sea level.
 
We are a couple of miles from the Pacific coast and frequently get a cooling high altitude fog. While further inland the heat can get intense, we love our weather. No freeze and very seldom over 80. Of course winter can bring lots of rain
 
Yep had it in Santa Clara, Ca and have it here near the Missouri river. It gets bad maybe twice a year to where you drive at a crawl. weird stuff...it IS like being in a thick cloud. :unsure: :)
 
Yes, here in the Mid-Atlantic region of the USA, at times, it can be quite dense.
 
Here in my area, we get a decent amount of fog in October/November,
often poor visibility, not good times to be on the road..
 
We get a few foggy mornings mid winter we call pea soupers ….so yes very thick fogs

However we had a very strange weather event last summer , about 2 pm each day….for about a week

a real freezing cold Cloud like fog drifted in off the sea (we live fairly close to a beach ) in South Australia.

We are still in winter and although we was away for about half the winter I don’t think we got much fog at all ( it’s still winter here ) …..Well….. I was taught in school ….that Spring starts on September 21 st ….not Sept 1 st as many say :unsure:now days ..

This was last summer …at 2.15 in afternoon….weather forecasters could not explain the reason for such a strange event in Summer, altho it was a very cool summer
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We live in South Central California coast. There are some times when the fog is so thick we cannot see a the big rock at the edge of the water.

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I took this photo while traveling through the snowy mountains in NSW in Feb this year

photo shows date / time 2.39 Pm. …Feb …..the hottest month of the year in Australia
we were surprised to see how foggy it was for mid summer

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Mornings in the spring and fall. The valley becomes socked in. If you have a flight, always check to see if it was delayed.
 
It is rare to see fog where I live (in the north of England). A misty morning usually heralds a warm sunny day. I lived in London as a child and remember smelly fog which had an 'eggy' smell, caused by fires, I presume.
 
Of our large cities due to topography and ocean upwelling currents driven by frequent onshore northwesterly winds, San Francisco arguably is the fog capital of the West Coast. However there are foggier coastal sections like Pacifica and Point Reyes. Due to the Pacific Ocean, the bay, coastal mountains, and isolated from the ocean nearby inland valleys, our local climates vary greatly over short distances.

Yesterday was over 100F a few miles inland while just high 60F along the coast. Here near San Jose, we receive less fog but it is in this morning now near 4am after reaching 90F yesterday afternoon. My front door is open at the moment letting in wonderful 63F cool moist foggy air.

After enjoying rock covers at a huge art/food/music street festival, I came home and after a food binge, was quickly asleep with indoor temp 79F. Note, air conditioning disconnected. Woke up at 3am and took a shower. Now will try and go back to sleep till 6am in much more pleasantness. So yeah, love our fog!

Late fall through winter, our coastal areas are less foggy and mid winter our inland valleys become foggy after rains with ground fog, sometimes continually for weeks. Well 20 minutes later and is now 70F indoors so will shut my door and go back to sleep.
 
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Paladin1950 said:
Years ago, I used to hear about fog in London. I went there 3 times in the 1980's, and never saw any fog.
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The first time I traveled to Southern California back in the early 70s, I expected to be enveloped in smog, but the sky was as bright blue as I had ever seen it anywhere. Years later I lived there for 6 months. Never saw smog once. I remember seeing smog as I approached St. Louis, Missouri on the freeway one time. But I never saw smog in the supposed smog capital of America.

As for fog, I now live near the Blue Ridge Mountains, and I've seen it so bad on the parkway, that the road was closed and gated.
 

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