Saturday was a damp, fairly dark day, just like the day before. The conditions were similar to those of Christmas day. The visibility was about the same, or possibly lower.
Walking down Lavender Trail towards the gap.
We turned left towards Texas Valley, like we did on Christmas Day. We didn’t walk far before I realized that the fog was gone. At the bottom I turned to look back up.
The clouds hide the top of the mountain.
Just like on Christmas Day, what we saw as fog on the mountain top was clouds from below. The clouds were thick enough that the top of the mountain was not visible.
The air was noticeably warmer at the bottom of the mountain, and as we walked back up I regretted wearing a long-sleeve shirt. As the day progressed, the air became warmer up at the top of the mountain, and the clouds withdrew to higher altitudes.
By 4 p.m. it was 65 F. I talked to a friend in Denver around mid-afternoon. He said they were headed to an expected high of 12 F.
I was the MC/standup at our annual Oglethorpe County CoCoRaHS rainfall measuring meeting yesterday Saturday. Late morning it was 74 degF. Much talk about the last few days being 20+ degF above normal (hi, med, and low averages). This morning we had some good fog, which is unusual for our immediate location in the woods. Up on the highway, yes, in places, but not down here in the woods very often.
What we see up on the mountain is almost invariably clouds rather than fog, of course depending on your definition of fog. I haven’t seen much fog lately down at the base of the mountain.
Right. Ours is usually radiation fog, and not clouds. I’m guessing the woodsy environment right down around the house is why we don’t see even the radiational very often (but do see it on the nearby roads).
When in Bisbee, we get clouds scraping the tops of the mountains and occasionally engulfing this house which is at about 5600 feet. Back in Nova Scotia, it is fog from the Bay of Fundy. It comes in with the tide and follows the Annapolis River up to my place. You can see it coming right above the river. Pretty neat.
When my parents first built their house, you could look out over several miles and see a river basin. You couldn’t actually see the river, but in the right weather, you could see the fog bank that covered the river.