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Fog spill

tehag - 3-26-2012 at 07:26 PM

Pacific moisture squeezes through a canyon in the Sierra la Giganta and spills down the eastern face sinking and quickly dissipating in the dry warm gulf air.




BajaBlanca - 3-26-2012 at 07:31 PM

what a neat photo !

bbbob - 3-27-2012 at 07:23 AM

right place , right time , cool......

David K - 3-27-2012 at 08:05 AM

Awesome... I have only seen that before at Bahia de los Angeles... Thank you for sharing it!!!

astrobaja - 3-27-2012 at 10:48 AM

Very cool shots!!!

DianaT - 3-28-2012 at 08:46 AM

Nice to capture that!

wsdunc - 3-28-2012 at 09:17 AM

Nice

fog

captkw - 3-28-2012 at 10:20 AM

wow,,nice shot's..I must have just missed it..I drove thru about 8 this morn...K&T :cool:

Udo - 3-28-2012 at 04:25 PM

It's called TULEE FOG.

Mexitron - 3-28-2012 at 05:21 PM

Nice!

Sallysouth - 3-28-2012 at 09:22 PM

I love that fog,have seen it when staying in Juncalito.The "eye" in the mountain is also very cool when the sun shines thru it.Do you have that one also?(betcha do)!Thanks Tehag!! love your stuff..

rhintransit - 3-28-2012 at 11:24 PM

saw that this Sunday morning going to the market...wished I had a long lens camera to capture it. great that you did it for me, thanks

bacquito - 3-30-2012 at 12:15 PM

WOW!!

DENNIS - 3-30-2012 at 12:42 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Udo
It's called TULEE FOG.


Are you sure??

One of these days I'll take a few shots of the fog coming off the water and over the hilltops behind my house. It looks like cake frosting and leaves you wondering why it doesnt tumble to the lowest point by it's own weight.
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tu·le   /ˈtuli; Sp. ˈtulɛ/ Show Spelled[too-lee; Sp. too-le] either of two large bulrushes, Scirpus lacustris or S. acutus, found in California and adjacent regions in inundated lands and marshes.

David K - 3-30-2012 at 01:39 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by DENNIS
Quote:
Originally posted by Udo
It's called TULEE FOG.


Are you sure??

One of these days I'll take a few shots of the fog coming off the water and over the hilltops behind my house. It looks like cake frosting and leaves you wondering why it doesnt tumble to the lowest point by it's own weight.
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tu·le   /ˈtuli; Sp. ˈtulɛ/ Show Spelled[too-lee; Sp. too-le] either of two large bulrushes, Scirpus lacustris or S. acutus, found in California and adjacent regions in inundated lands and marshes.


I lived in Fresno 2 1/2 years... and 'Tule Fog' rises up from rain soaked ground rather than off the ocean... Here is from Wikipedia:

Tule fog ( /ˈtuːliː/) is a thick ground fog that settles in the San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento Valley areas of California's Great Central Valley. Tule fog forms during the late fall and winter (California's rainy season) after the first significant rainfall. The official time frame for tule fog to form is from November 1 to March 31. This phenomenon is named after the tule grass wetlands (tulares) of the Central Valley. Accidents caused by the tule fog are the leading cause of weather-related casualties in California.



Tule fog is a radiation fog, which condenses when there is a high relative humidity (typically after a heavy rain), calm winds, and rapid cooling during the night. The nights are longer in the winter months, which creates rapid ground cooling, and thereby a pronounced temperature inversion at a low altitude.

In California, tule fog can extend from Bakersfield to Red Bluff. Tule fog occasionally drifts as far west as the San Francisco Bay Area, even drifting westward out the Golden Gate, opposite to the usual course of summertime ocean fog.

It is formed when cold mountain air flows downslope into the valley during the night, pooling in the low areas until it fills the valley to the "brim" formed by the Coast Ranges and the Sierra Nevada. This occurs because most areas in the Great Central Valley have little or no air drainage below the level of mountain passes. Because of the density of the cold air in the winter, winds are not able to dislodge the fog and the high pressure of the warmer air above the mountaintops presses down on the cold air trapped in the valley, resulting in a dense, immobile fog that can last for days or at times for weeks undisturbed. Tule fog often contains light drizzle or freezing drizzle where temperatures are sufficiently cold.

Tule fog is a low cloud, usually below 1,000 feet in altitude and can be seen from above by driving up into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada to the east or the Coast Ranges to the west. Above the cold, foggy layer, the air is typically warm, dry and clear. Once tule fog is formed, turbulent air is necessary to break through the temperature inversion layer. Daytime heating sometimes evaporates the fog in some areas, although the air remains chilly and hazy below the inversion and reforms right after sunset. Tule fog usually remains longer in the southern and eastern parts of the Central Valley because more winter storms affect the northern Central Valley.

david K

captkw - 3-30-2012 at 03:27 PM

HOLA, nomads.. as a delta rat,, tullie fog is only on the deck..aka down low. due to warmth and codensation..but I might be wrong and it is thicker than ocean fog !! K&T:cool:

tiotomasbcs - 3-31-2012 at 07:19 AM

Thick fog over our Pacific Coast the last few mornings! Sometimes it wraps around Cabo and makes its way up the East Cape?! Nice photograph! It's cold and damp this am. Tio