Community Chat

[151949]

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.

[tends2dogs]

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!

[151949]

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.

[tends2dogs]

@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.

[cherry]

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

[151949]

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.

[tends2dogs]

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

[151949]

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. 

[151949]

@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. 

[FrostyBabe1]

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.