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Question for Stan or any savy weather types.

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Posted by Lance Burch on March 18, 2011 at 11:01 AM
I was driving in to work this morning and noticed that washpark had a very thick layer of fog and provided for a lot of cool comps with the fog and the trees. It might not have burned off yet if anyone lives in the area. It looked like a 5 foot high carpet covering the ground. Thick enough that I could barely make out the top of someone's head walking their dog from 100 yards away.

So my question: What are conditions that could indicate fog that I could be on the lookout for the night before? Seems like a cold day after previous warm day? Is their a moisture/humidity component I should look for?
Posted by Todd Caudle on March 18, 2011 at 5:52 PM
Follow me around.
Posted by Grant Collier on March 19, 2011 at 12:11 AM
Definitely don't follow me... I think this was at least partially answered in another thread:

http://www.naturephotographers.net/imagecritique/bbs.cgi?a=vm&mr=62098&CGISESSID=5afec2895aec53eb36c3d121478285ef&u=25233
Posted by Stan Rose on March 19, 2011 at 2:07 PM
I was out yesterday morning too--took a ton of shots of Pikes Peak which ill post tomorrow here, emerging from the fog that i knew would be there the night before :wink: Course, I had the advantage of having high resolution computer forecast that told me how deep the fog would be and how long it would last etc, but the basic idea was 1) moisture (light snowfall the previous night) 2) clearing (often coincident wiht high pressure building over the area 3) winds condusive for the particular area (either light or upslope) 4) relatively cold air for the fog layer
But if in doubt, just follow Todd :razz:
Posted by Lance Burch on March 19, 2011 at 4:04 PM
Thanks guys. I can start with that.

Todd, I'll take you up on the sometime.
Posted by Erik Stensland on March 19, 2011 at 4:23 PM
Stan, you really need to develop a photographers alert system. I'd be happy to pay for something like that!
Posted by Jim Bennett on March 19, 2011 at 7:19 PM
Stan already does that for us at no charge. Don't you remember that big snow storm that Stan forecast for a couple of Tuesdays ago? :biggrin:
Posted by Lance Burch on March 20, 2011 at 1:11 AM
That's not right. Funny, but not right/
Posted by Stan Rose on March 20, 2011 at 3:03 PM
Well, it came--just 150 miles too far south. Certainly you can drive 150 miles Jim :wink:
Incidentally, this ridiculously dry and warm March is gonna continue this week--it looks like there may be a couple Spring storms beginnning next weekend, but i aint going out on a limb just yet...
Posted by Morris McClung on March 20, 2011 at 4:39 PM
I'm with Erik, Stan. Just put out a fog bulletin for us, and there just may be something in it for you!