Strange Fog Blankets the City
"Early Morning Fog Shots III" by bigdaddyhame
While very few of us are likely to complain about it being close to 30 degrees Celsius on Thanksgiving Day, I think many of us are at least thinking about it and what it means. While I'm not jumping on the doomsday ship or preparing to drink any funky punch (quite yet, anyhow), I am concerned.
Today we once again had some rather strange weather, including a very dense humid fog that came in and out at various times during the day. Is this normal?
More photos of today's climate oddity by blogTO Flickr pool members after the jump. If you have any of your own photos you'd like to see here, please add them to the pool.
"City Bird" by wvs.
"Foggy CN Tower" by dalmond.
"Low laying Clouds" by Stephanie Town
"Paging Mr. Carpenter. Your fog is almost ready." by smlgphotos
"The fog" by Maria in Toronto
"The Sun Behind the Shade - pt.2" by Pixel3 Photography | Aubrey Arenas
"Etobicoke Railyard Fog" by me.
"Obscured By Cloud" by sniderscion
"fog eraser" by Seeing Is
"swallowed up" by syncros
"thefog0001" by danpire
"Downtown Mystery Fog - Wellington & Spadina" by the mkt
"P1120598" by wyliepoon
"Foggy Tower" by Adam Schwabe
"A Win in the Fog" by ste&we
"Misty Street" by PDPhotography
Comments (19)
Geez! I though it was my eyes playing tricks on me. I went outside and looked around for a fire or something that was causing the "whiteness." Thanks for the sanity check.
I'd just like to say that I'm complaining about 30 degrees this weekend, and I'm even going to a cottage.. 6 month summers are lame. Bring on the blizzards!
Also, I found it funny that when I watched the news this morning, they said it was sooooo sunny out and going to be such a sunny day.. funny because I didn't see the sun once!
I just added my photo at 6 PM to the pool. I also posted on my blog, with a comparison to a "normal day" view: http://mividaentoronto.blogspot.com/2007/10/fog.html
At first I thought it was my sunglasses, then I took them off and it was still oddly smokey. Then as I biked through Kensington, the fog seemed also to quieten, dampen sound, making everything seem somehow post-apocalyptic
It was foggy in Hamilton/Brantford this morning too. I could barely see while driving on the 403!
see this is a direct side effect of weather control. more specifically of the relentless barrage of aerosols that are sprayed all year "diverting" and "dissipating" every NORMAL weather system/rainfall that we should have had into periods of really hot humid smog. That same layer of aerosol 22,000ft int he air is whats insulating us now, preventing the onset of fall and the cold.
Huh? Can we get an actual scientific explanation of wtf was going on today? Scientists? Anyone know a scientist?
Scientists to the rescue!
CityNews' Meteorologist Michael Kuss says "When we have the cooler waters of the lake and the warmer air aloft ... that lake actually cools the air above it," explains CityNews meteorologist Michael Kuss. "We get a temperature inversion. So the air above that initial layer is actually warmer than the air closer to the lake. And that air becomes saturated. The fog forms. Now once the sun comes up in the morning, that heats the layer of air close to the land, and that allows that rising air to create a void, and that void allows that fog to roll on shore."
wake the hell up, dude. you need a "scientist" to pacify you?
http://imageevent.com/firesat/strangedaysstrangeskies?z=3&c=4&n=1&m=-1&w=4&x=0&p=14
Kuss says whatever he's told. Like most specialists or "scientists" that value their career/income. You keep believing what you're told. And leave the basic deduction to the "scientists" LOL
Yeah, let's not trust a scientist. I think we should put all our trust in an anonymous blog commenter.
Anonymous?? He _said_ his name is Bob, what more do you want?!
Funny how he immediately links to a page referencing "findings" by "scientists" after telling you to wake the hell up and stop being pacified.
Still, all Kuss explained is the concept of fog, not why Toronto has a blanket of fog like this despite it being a quite unusual weather pattern for this area. I'm not sure "chemtrails" is quite the direction to move in from there, though. Perhaps global climate change is shifting weather patterns in this area, as it has been in many others, and we're now the geographic home of a warm-cold interaction that happens to create such patches of fog, which typically would have occurred somewhere else on the planet instead?
This uber-fog-outta-nowhere-day thing happened about a year ago, I don't remember exactly when but I've got a couple photos saved on my hard drive taken from above the cloud line. I'm trying to re-find the originals on Flickr, but can't.
So it's not an isolated incident, but I don't think it's common either. I don't think it's just me imagining things that this is out of character for Toronto, and everyone around me's comments today and finally this post has backed me up on that. I used one of the older photos as a visual example of Toronto seeming somewhat different these days in this post on my blog: http://www.shoppingcartsinravines.com/2007/09/06/my-place-in-toronto-and-torontos-in-the-world/
If anyone knows who took that photo (7th image down), please let me know :)
After leaving the bicycle friendly business awards last night at city hall, I was struck by how beautiful the clouds looked mingled among the sky scrapers.
Thanks for posting more nice pictures (I regretted not having my camera yesterday).
As for an explanation, it is just low clouds (I would not know why they were low though).
It's straight forward to find an answer to the question "why/how does fog form?" but I'm more interested in understanding if this kind of bizarre climate effect is normal for this specific location on the planet and this specific time of the year.
Chris: it was November 25, 2006 that we saw similar strange fog day in Toronto. I posted a series of photos last year too.
Jerrold,
Don't be so sure about the no complaints about 30'C weather on Thanksgiving. You're obviously not planning on spending 3-4 hours in front of a 350'C oven cooking a turkey and all the fixin's.
What I specifically wanted to know is why they're concentrated around the city so densely. Everywhere else was fine, as you can see from the pictures, it's just the downtown core.
It wasn't just the core, I was out in Scarborough and it was incredibly thick there. I think maybe we just notice it more because of all the skyscrapers. I thought it looked thicker around the condos in Scarborough Centre, too, but it's just an illusion.
"What I specifically wanted to know is why they're concentrated around the city so densely."
Not to over-simplify, fog is merely cloud that hangs so low as to touch the ground.
As such, fog will tend to "pool" in lower-lying areas, such as the downtown core leading off into the lake.
It was foggy all day up around the North York / Etobicoke border too, starting from pretty early in the morning and fading over the day.
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