The Meaning of Mist on a Summer Morning
Mist on a summer morning can be a forecast of good weather ahead. On misty mornings in summer, we can get the feeling that the…
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What is Rime Ice?
Rime Ice There is a common type of icing that is regularly called frost, but is not formed in the same way. Rime ice occurs…
Why is visibility so good in the mountains?
Many visitors to cold mountains are struck by the amazing visibility. The visibility is so good that it can trick the brain into thinking things…
What is the Planetary Boundary Layer?
From The Secret World of Weather: The lowest part of the atmosphere is the only area strongly influenced by the sun’s radiative heating of the…
Dew: A Sign of a Clear Skies
There are many signs within dew, but the simplest one is that you are most likely to see it after clear and cloudless skies overnight.…
The Sound of Fog Drip
What is fog drip? When we see fog, the air is saturated, there is more water than it can hold. This forms droplets which gather…
A Small, Challenging Natural Navigation Exercise in Fog
Yesterday the conditions were perfect for a short tricky natural navigation exercise in fog. Here are some of the photos from that challenge. These were taken…
What is Radiation Fog?
We are used to feeling the warmth from the sun on our faces. Heat radiates millions of miles across space, through our atmosphere to warm…
Naturally Navigating Dartmoor Part II
Naturally Navigating Dartmoor Part II Close to the Wind By Tristan Gooley (An edited version of the following article by Tristan Gooley was originally published…
Navigating by Windswept Grasses
It was great to be out there on Harting Downs again, in the mist, navigating by the feel of the wind and angles of the…
The Difference Between Mist and Fog
I recently took the opportunity to do a little natural navigation exercise on Dartmoor. There was heavy rain and plenty of mist and fog. I’ll…
Ann Cleeves Lost in Fog
Ann Cleeves, bestselling author of crime novels and creator of characters, like Vera Stanhope, that are now familiar to millions more through their TV adaptions,…
Jamaica Inn
After giving a talk to a lovely audience at the Poly in Falmouth last week, I stopped at that famous haunt of smugglers, Jamaica Inn,…
Sensing Lots When We Can See Little
Could this photograph of distant trees be the worst one I have taken this year? Maybe not. When the fog descends there is a great…
Words by the Water Festival
I have just returned from a wonderful couple of days in the Lake District. I was at the ‘Words by the Water’ literary festival in…
A Tale of Two Skies
These two photographs were taken this morning, within a few seconds of each other and from exactly the same spot. In the book I touch…
Thick and Thin Mist
We spend most of our time looking horizontally. This morning was a misty one and looking out across the fields the mist felt thick and…
Fog Navigation
This morning brought with it a nice thick radiation fog, which the sun will probably burn off soon. There is not forecast to be much…
Millennium Mist
On Sunday morning, when sailing off the south coast, visibility came down to a few hundred metres at times. The sun played some of its…