Mist vs Fog

[Kym]

Hey everyone,

What's the difference between mist and fog?

Kym.

[Kym]

Huh! The reason I asked is because I read my Bell in the Mist poem and a man came up to me and said, that wouldn't have been mist, it would have been fog. I snored through science at high school, so I had no ammo to argue with him. To me, mist is soft, delicate, pretty, while fog is dense and dirty with boats going aaahhooooggaaa in the background ... that's what I reckon.

"A Bell In The Fog" just doesn't have the same ring, does it?

***blue belly button fluff *** Only you would think to google blue belly button fluff!

[Bob Pacey]

I would have given him the same example that you have posted Kym.

The other option is a simple " Whatever "

Or my favourite " Yeah sure Ted "

You are right "Bells In The Fog" Aaaaa hhhhhh oooo ggg aaaaaa !!!!!




Bob

[Maureen K Clifford]

Marty - Viagra???? Do not tell me I do not wish to know merely posting this as a possible answer to your perplexing issue

Kym I always thought fog was the polluted one and mist was the soft gentle steam that arises from dampened earth. You are right a bell in the fog would not have the same ring. The fog being deeper and thicker would muffle and distort the sound.

Could be wrong - I've been wrong before

Cheers

Maureen

[Heather]

Kym, if my memory serves me, fog rises from the ground. I think it has something to do with a warm day, moisture in the ground and then a cold night. You see it sometimes on a hot day when it has rained - you can see the water rise as vapour from hot road surfaces. That's why you can get fog in low lying areas and you may have noticed that it is often just a layer. I can drive from here to Kilmore and there are areas that are low lying or must hold moisture and those areas will be foggy and parts are not.

I've been in mountains where it is misty and that is simply cloud. I would call that mist.

As for belly button fluff - there was a man who collected his for years and put it in a jar! Creepy! Was that you Marty?

Heather

[Maureen K Clifford]

fog is thick and mist is light – now I think I’ve got it right
straight to Google I did go – lots of folks there in the know
but oh dear could be confusing lots of great big words they’re using
but the theme sure seems to be that fog is thick, mist just misty.

I think it is like snow -

you never know when you are going to get it or how thick it is going to be
if you can't see the hand in front of your face then it's foggy instead of misty.


Google is your friend

[Maureen K Clifford]

is this perhaps a male affliction
I’m asking for ‘tis my conviction
that females by this sky blue fluff
are not affected – sure enough.
I rang my Mum and checked with her
if she’d ever had sky blue fur
and she told me in tones of fright
‘no never dear’. Mums always right.

[Dave Smith]

Marty said

Mist or fog?...
But what is the difference between mist and fog? The answer lies in their thickness – and how far we can see through them (i.e.: the visibility). If we can see less than 1 km through the cloud of water droplets, it is known as fog. If we can see between 1 and 2 km, we call it mist.

And Kym said

To me, mist is soft, delicate, pretty, while fog is dense and dirty with boats going aaahhooooggaaa in the background ... that's what I reckon.

Same answer

Maureen not Viagra but Niagara and the mist forms as the waterfall interacts with the atmosphere.

Heather the vapour rising from the road after a rain on a hot day is steam; the fog in the mountains in layers can be fog or cloud depending on the amount water droplets.

And belly button fluff is just rubbish the colour is irrelevant.

TTFN

PS
please go a bit slower in the mornings so I can keep up

[Heather]

Dave you are right, it is steam. I was just trying to think of a way to explaining it to Kym but as it turns out I was wrong (get that - a woman admitting she was wrong!)

Fog is formed near the ground. Pretty sure clouds only form in the sky.

Dave I think the mist in the mountains could be either fog or cloud depending on the way it is formed, or perhaps where it is formed.

Fog forms when a layer of warm, wet air forms close to the ground and another layer of cooler, drier air forms on top of the warmer layer. When the ground begins to cool down, the water droplets in the warm, wet air begin to condense to form fog. This type of fog is called radiation fog.

Types of Fog:
1. Radiation Fog2.
Advection Fog
3. Upslope Fog
4. Steam Fog


Formation of Radiation Fog - Radiational Cooling
• need:
o shallow, moist air near surface
o clear/calm nights
o although light winds will bring more air in contact with ground
• Radiational cooling allows the temperature to drop to the dew point.

http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/classes/met13 ... intro.html

[Dave Smith]

Heather you are now confusing the issue with fact.

(1) If you have to run 200 metres to make your hair damp it’s mist.
(2) If you run 100 metres and you hair is wet its fog.
(3) If you are standing still and your hair gets wet then its rain.

TTFN