Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Freezing fog?

I have never heard of, nor had I ever really conceived of, a concept such as "freezing fog". But, it exists, and that was what I walked home from the train station in. Despite the ability to suck all warmth right out of your body, it is a really neat thing... Basically, it's 100% humidity, but rather than some sort of falling precipitation, there is just fog... Fog so thick that it is impossible to see more than about 20 feet in front of you. Fog that causes water to condense on absolutely everything. But that is only half of it. It is also right at or just below freezing. So, the water condenses on stuff - windows, cars, your jeans - then proceeds to freeze. It was really just plain interesting, and it wasn't that terrible. It only took a minute or two of being inside to thaw out and stop shivering, but really, I am still much more accustomed to NC weather.

I tried to take a picture with my kick ass 3.2 mega pixel camera phone, but I couldn't because the flash kept going off, and reflected off the fog, which made the picture filled with white dots. Oh, well. I'd thought that having a really good camera phone would keep me from ever saying, "I wish I'd had my camera." But so far, it's only made me say, "I wish I had my real camera." :-)

Now I need tea to warm up a bit because my living room is a bit chilly

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