It has been rainy and cool here for what seems like weeks. Saturday was a dreary day. When the drizzle stopped, the fog moved in.
This was taken at the intersection of Lavender Trail and Fouche Gap Road, looking up towards where the driveway enters our new lot. The official visibility in Rome was 10 miles, which is essentially unlimited. The visibility up here on the mountain was not much more than 100 yards; we were actually up in the clouds.
It has rained so much and we have had so little sunlight even when it’s not raining that the ground remains saturated. Neighbor John’s bulldozer has sat on our lot since the work he did more than two weeks ago. The ground is way too muddy for clearing.
You can just see John’s bulldozer about a stone’s throw from where I took the picture.
The temperature rose through the night Friday, and it’s supposed to continue to rise this night, Saturday. A squall line is supposed to move through the area sometime around midnight. After this round of rain, the temperature is predicted to drop. The predicted high on next Thursday is 28 F. There is sun in the forecast for at least a week, so maybe John can start clearing again before too long.
Sure does look bleak there. I have often said to Roger that my absolute least favorite weather condition is fog. It blocks the sun and sky and doesn’t do very much in the way of atmospheric optics. Just dreariness. I hope it clears there and you get some sunlight and work done on the new house.
Robin — I kind of like fog occasionally, but we really didn’t have fog. Fog generally forms in the lower elevations, but not at our elevation. I wish I had driven down to the bottom of the mountain to see just where the clouds ended.