Bone Chilling 60.4 Degrees This Morning

[897tgigvib]

There's just something about coastal air, that sometimes even when the temperature is a nice 60 degrees, or even a bit more, it can have an effect that actually feels cold on the surface of the skin.

I think it could be the way the humidity is in the air. Size of the particles of water?

There is a huge difference between mist and fog. Mist seems to be there. It doesn't roll over hills, it develops over the lake and sets, the top part slowly dissipating, bottom part developing. It can be in bands, and it can actually turn into rain. Not sure if fog does that.

Maybe a Londoner can say it better, or could compare them.

 

[bobm]

I guess that the phenominon described over a body of water is evaporation. When individual water molecules start to rise from water due to differenses in temperature , barometric pressure and air movement then cling together in the atmosphere they form droplets then into clouds and when they become heavy enough, they fall to the ground as mist/ rain depending on the amount of humidity in the air. Fog can be formed from water molecules from evaporation and / or condensation of humidity in the air then form over the surface of water/ earth due to atmosheric differences in temperature, barometric pressure and air movement. Some water droplets may fall prior to forming clouds when they become heavy enough when atmospheric conditions are just right.

 

[Ridgerunner]

The Texas Aggie explanation

Q: What's the difference between mist and fog?

A: Mist is made up of tiny water droplets suspended in the air, says Brent McRoberts of Texas A&M University. "It produces a grayish-looking area over the landscape," he explains. "Fog is actually a cloud that is based at the Earth's surface and is also made up of tiny droplets and can even be composed of ice crystals if it is cold enough. The real difference between fog and mist deals with visibility. Under foggy conditions, visibility is reduced to less than one kilometer, or a little over half a mile. Mist does not reduce visibility as much as fog does."

http://atmo.tamu.edu/weather-and-climate/weather-whys/649-mist-or-fog

 

[baymule]

It is scorching hot here, don't expect ME to feel sorry for your bone chilling 60 degrees!!

 

[Sprinkler Buddy]

Reminds me of night fishing when the fog rolls in. Watching it come at you just rolling over the water and then it hits you like a big wet blanket.

 

[NwMtGardener]

HAH. We had a low in the 40s a few nights ago. It was just a randon chilly night, mostly we've been having mid 50s for lows.

In the winters in the mountains here we get freezing fog, and it builds up with snow on the trees, making snowghosts. Its pretty cool looking, but unfortunately we dont see much sun some winters with the low cloud cover.

 

[897tgigvib]

Don't misunderstand Bay, I LOVE feeling the chill on my skin!!! With my hyperthyroid burning in the core of me, inner wrists feel like burning toast, palms with peeling skin, any kind of chil feels like heaven to me!

Montana and texas! Cool up there, hot down there.

If I had to choose between 40 below and 115 above, I'll take the 40 below. Oh yes. I know 40 below. Older as I am now, I'd die in it, but I'd die in 115 above too. The hot does not numb a person. The cold does. I'd rather have the 40 below to die in.

Extremes aside, I still prefer the cold to the hot!

0 degrees or 90 degrees. I'll easily take the 0 degrees! That's doable almost all day, all layered up.

20 degrees or 80 degrees? Most definitely take 20 degrees. Won't hear hardly the slightest grumble from me about a balmy 20 degrees!

Anything outside between 40 and 60 is my comfort zone! Yep.

I mention the 60 degree chill thing as a kind of california phenomenon. Something about the morning mist puts a surface chill on the skin. I love that surface chill! Feels good!

 

[baymule]

Marshall, count me a Southern Magnolia. I will take the heat over the 0 degrees any day. 20 degrees is a SERIOUS freeze here and only lasts a few days at a time until the sun comes out again. Breaking ice in the water troughs is NOT how I want to spend my time for months at a time. If I had to deal with it for long periods, yeah, I'd have the water heaters and all that nice convenient stuff, but for a few days out of the year, it ain't worth it. Snow? Ice? We are idiots and smash into each other on the highways, best to stay home and hide until it melts.

 

[897tgigvib]

I Southern Magnolias! 'Specially when they talk that southern talk!

:bouquet

 

[baymule]

I Southern Magnolias! 'Specially when they talk that southern talk!

:bouquet

Haha, not only do I have that southern talk, but I have that Texas drawl too!