Environment
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
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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!
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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."
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_15407.aspx
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
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 :)
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).
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.
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.