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There are also occasional extended spells when fog and stratus ("overcast") do not clear back to the coast for several days. These extended periods of cloudiness are usually a consequence of a weak area of low pressure above the marine layer which increases its depth, making it more difficult for surface heating to evaporate the clouds within it.
However, the normally-very-sunny Los Angeles climate also is home to people who thrive during the brief seasonal respite the gloom provides from the unending sunshine and clear skies. [15] In the early 20th century, this phenomenon was sometimes known as the high fog. A long June Gloom season, extending late into the summer, is known as Summer ...
Saturday night will see mostly clear skies with areas of fog. Low temperature of 66.
The international definition of fog is a visibility of less than 1 km (3,300 ft); mist is a visibility of between 1 km (0.62 mi) and 2 km (1.2 mi) and haze from 2 km (1.2 mi) to 5 km (3.1 mi). Fog and mist are generally assumed to be composed principally of water droplets, haze and smoke can be of smaller particle size.
Radiation fog is formed by the cooling of land after sunset by infrared thermal radiation in calm conditions with a clear sky. The cooling ground then cools adjacent air by conduction , causing the air temperature to fall and reach the dew point , forming fog.
Airports open late to clear Christmas fog backlog. Georgina Barnes - BBC News, Jersey and Jack Silver - BBC News, Guernsey. December 24, 2024 at 12:20 PM.
As the sun rose on Jan. 8, the sky orange from ash and smoke, Angelenos anxiously waited for news about the extent of the damage from the Altadena and Pacific Palisades fires.. It would take days ...
Winter smoke in Shanghai, China, with a clear border-layer for the vertical air-spread (1993). A temperature inversion in Bratislava , Slovakia , viewing the top of Nový Most (2005). Inversion-created smog in Nowa Ruda, Poland, 2017 Temperature inversion phenomenon in the early morning near Tawau , Sabah , Malaysia where smoke that was emitted ...