On Silent Haunches

Just a quick update: we have fog!! We just began sampling up here at the station, and of course - as soon as I connected the sample bottles, the liquid water content went back to almost zero. But it's back! This is a really nice event: most of the fog we've observed so far at the station has been short-lived and patchy. However, this one started around 3:30 am, and has lasted at least until now ---around 6 am. Jeongmin (I think I've been misspelling his name - sorry!) called me around 4:00 to say that there was fog in town, so we turned on the CASCC2 at the dormitories. When we got back, this is what I found on the PVM computer.

The signal was up to 90 mg liquid water per cubic meter of air, which is, I think, the highest I've seen so far! The ride down here in the car was a little dodgy because the fog was also dense on the road. When we arrived, the fog had lasted --last time, we arrived and the event ended just then. You can see at about 5:05 am, when I connected the sample bottles, the signal dropped - I thought for sure we were out of luck a second time. But the LWC rose back up, and I saw about 144 mg per cubic meter on the screen at one point. This is a great morning for fog!

To capture the moment, here's an image of the sf-CASCC in action.

And me with it!

One last note: while excitedly drinking my "coffee" a few minutes ago, I googled a poem about fog that we learned in choir when I was in middle school. We all made fun of it at the time because the song was sort of weird, but it turns out it was written by Carl Sandburg, who was born in the town where I went to college (go Knox!).

Fog

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.