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Wednesday Vignette: Creeping fog or creepy fog?

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I wasn't sure how to describe the fog I noticed early last Friday evening as I was finishing up my garden chores.  The way it crept along the edges of the harbor, surrounding but not engulfing it, made me think of an episode of Twilight Zone.  It was sunny and clear where I was standing and I could see blue sky above and beyond the fog, which moved in more like a wave than a blanket.

This is what I saw just after 6pm on Friday evening

Usually, when fog rolls in it envelops the entire harbor.  The lights in the harbor and the city beyond are "turned off" and after the sun goes down all you can see, if anything, are a few of the closest homes.  That never happened on Friday night.  The mass that surrounded the harbor looked more like clouds sitting on the surface of the water.  By the following morning it had retreated a ways but it still created the appearance of a low wall surrounding the harbor.
 
This is the view after sunrise the next morning

I did a little online surfing and the best explanation I could find suggests that what I saw wasn't fog at all but clouds, perhaps Arcus clouds, possibly of the roll cloud type.  Interesting but not Twilight Zone material.  If you've seen something similar or can offer a better explanation, let me know.

For other Wednesday Vignettes, visit Anna at Flutter & Hum.


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