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sea fog

151949 — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:16:25 GMT

While most of America is dealing with cold and snow and sleet, and sending me hate messages on FB because I live in the tropics, we are dealing every night here by the gulf coast with very dense sea fog. It rolls in just before dark in the evening , gets thicker as the night goes on and by morning we can't even see our own lanai furniture.Then when the sun finally burns it off - which doesn't happen until around 9 or 10 AM - the furniture outside is left damp and nasty for hours to dry. I've had to bring in the cushions from the porch furniture, to prevent them getting mildew. Anyway , it is very eerie - I feel like we are living in the movie The goast & Mrs Muir. We have had sea fog before but never like it has been these past few days. Of course it makes driving treacherous. if you aren't accustommed to living by the ocean it is quite weird how it rolls in from the sea - you actually see it coming in from the west & then it just settles here.

Re: sea fog

tends2dogs — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:35:58 GMT

Right now, I would trade places with you.

BUT, my dog......that may be a different story.......

Both pics taken this morning. BRRRRRRRRRRRR....close to single digits. We are hoping to head south before the next storm hits at the end of the week. I have never seen this sea fog before. We are quite a ways further south than you are. Maybe that is why. I would like to see it!

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151949 — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:45:31 GMT

Are you going to Cuba? There isn't much of the USA left that is "quite a ways further south than we are." probably about 150 miles to Key West.

Googled it -- 110 miles here to key west.

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tends2dogs — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:46:43 GMT

@151949 For some reason I thought you were in the Sarasota area. What mile marker are you at? We are at 106, I believe. We are one climate belt below Sarasota and that area. We are always warmer in the winter. We have friends that live in Osprey that have visited and said it is more tropical than where they are.

Anyway, I would love to see the sea fog you described. It would be eerie to not be able to see past your lanai.

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cherry — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:46:48 GMT

I was watching the news last night and it showed fog or steam rolling in from Lake Superior

This happens when the water is warmer than the surrounding land.

It's pretty hard to beleive that about Superior, that water is always cold

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151949 — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:50:31 GMT

They said on the weather channel it is happening because the dew point and the air temperature are the same.

It is a few min until 9AM and it has not even begun to lift. I need to go to the grocery store but I don't want to drive in this. We can see our lanai but we can't see the back yard yet.

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tends2dogs — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:55:11 GMT

@151949 Wow. Just have another cup of coffee and watch it burn off. Don't drive in it!

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151949 — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 14:02:01 GMT

As I sit here gazing at the fog we are listening to KDKA radio from Pittsburgh via the computer and they are giving the weather forecast - expecting lots of snow in the burgh. I'm glad I'm not there. Our little trailer has been winterized and is probably sitting covered in snow. I can't imagine anything more depressing than winter in a campground up north.

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151949 — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 14:10:03 GMT

@tends2dogs We had weimaraners and they are retrievers, so they love to chase anything. We would go out in the backyard and throw snowballs for them but , being scent dogs , they could not find them and they would be running all over the yard looking for them. Even though they had very short fur they loved being out in the snow, so my Mom bought them lands End doggie squall jackets.

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FrostyBabe1 — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:32:17 GMT

I'd rather have sea fog than snow, ice and below zero temps.

I was was sitting on the beach yesterday and in the space of 15 minutes or so, it went from a perfectly beautiful day to not being able to see the water 15 feet in front of me. This morning there wasn't any fog at the beach but inland was pretty murky, although it's pretty much burned off now. The Sarasota airport is a bit of a mess this morning. The last two flights from Atlanta diverted so the first two flights this morning are quite late going out. My flight is only about 20 minutes late and I've got 2+ hours in Atlanta.

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151949 — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:45:47 GMT

Well, it is 10:30AM. It has finally cleared and the sun is shining on a beautiful day.However - by around 5 to 5:30 it comes back. So not very much sunshine.This is our 6th year here and the first we have experienced this to this degree.

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2blonde — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:08:17 GMT

This isn't meant at all to be mean, but I'm having a hard time relating. We are expecting arctic temperatures, high winds and heavy snow beginning tonight and through tomorrow. I have to be to work at 7:30 a.m., and we are expecting 6-12 inches, depending on how the wind blows. You don't want to know what rush hour is like around here even on a good day. I live in NE Ohio.

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qualitygal — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:43:02 GMT

Before you even said it, all I could think of was the Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

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bri20 — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:03:45 GMT

Sea fog really doesn't compare to freezing temps and snow and ice. I don't think you're going to get much sympathy

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151949 — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:56:10 GMT

Not every poster or thread is looking for sympathy. Some of us just want to discuss something we find to be interesting. I found this is interesting. Pardon me for not posting a OH POOR POOR ME thread.

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CANDLEQUEEN — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:06:59 GMT

@151949 wrote:
While most of America is dealing with cold and snow and sleet, and sending me hate messages on FB because I live in the tropics, we are dealing every night here by the gulf coast with very dense sea fog. It rolls in just before dark in the evening , gets thicker as the night goes on and by morning we can't even see our own lanai furniture.Then when the sun finally burns it off - which doesn't happen until around 9 or 10 AM - the furniture outside is left damp and nasty for hours to dry. I've had to bring in the cushions from the porch furniture, to prevent them getting mildew. Anyway , it is very eerie - I feel like we are living in the movie The goast & Mrs Muir. We have had sea fog before but never like it has been these past few days. Of course it makes driving treacherous. if you aren't accustommed to living by the ocean it is quite weird how it rolls in from the sea - you actually see it coming in from the west & then it just settles here.

Did you ever see the movie called The Fog? very scary! I think intense fog is pretty spooky anyways, and even more so if you have to drive in it, we have had fog so thick here you couldn't see two feet in front of you-very scary, but I don't think you would want to trade for our Wisconsin Winter so far, tomorrow the high is supposed to be 4 degrees, with a wind chill of about -7.......

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tends2dogs — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:22:10 GMT

@151949 wrote:
@tends2dogs We had weimaraners and they are retrievers, so they love to chase anything. We would go out in the backyard and throw snowballs for them but , being scent dogs , they could not find them and they would be running all over the yard looking for them. Even though they had very short fur they loved being out in the snow, so my Mom bought them lands End doggie squall jackets.

Oh my gosh, @151949. That is too funny. Would love to see the doggie squall jackets! My dog grew his own LOL .

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151949 — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:22:29 GMT

@qualitygal A favorite old movie of mine.

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tends2dogs — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:25:03 GMT

@CANDLEQUEEN wrote:
@151949 wrote:
While most of America is dealing with cold and snow and sleet, and sending me hate messages on FB because I live in the tropics, we are dealing every night here by the gulf coast with very dense sea fog. It rolls in just before dark in the evening , gets thicker as the night goes on and by morning we can't even see our own lanai furniture.Then when the sun finally burns it off - which doesn't happen until around 9 or 10 AM - the furniture outside is left damp and nasty for hours to dry. I've had to bring in the cushions from the porch furniture, to prevent them getting mildew. Anyway , it is very eerie - I feel like we are living in the movie The goast & Mrs Muir. We have had sea fog before but never like it has been these past few days. Of course it makes driving treacherous. if you aren't accustommed to living by the ocean it is quite weird how it rolls in from the sea - you actually see it coming in from the west & then it just settles here.
Did you ever see the movie called The Fog? very scary! I think intense fog is pretty spooky anyways, and even more so if you have to drive in it, we have had fog so thick here you couldn't see two feet in front of you-very scary, but I don't think you would want to trade for our Wisconsin Winter so far, tomorrow the high is supposed to be 4 degrees, with a wind chill of about -7.......

@CANDLEQUEEN Was that Stephen King? If I remember right, people just kept disappearing in that fog never to be found again.................creepy.........

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151949 — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:25:46 GMT

@tends2dogs Yeah your dog looks pretty well prepared for the cold. Our Daisy & Gretchen only had 1/2" long fur and not a lot of that. Their bellies were just skin.

Every year at Christmas time Lands End used to sell those doggie squall jackets. Our dogs loved them, would stand very still to get them put on.