It's a bit misty in London at the moment. Flew into foggy London. Views are beautiful - this is the Shard and all the towers in the city. London Fog review – a city in the thick of it. Christine L Corton's study of London's once most notorious type of weather is absorbing and.
The marine layer clears back toward the coast, usually by noon. By mid-afternoon, inland areas have heated sufficiently to decrease the air pressure and increase the onshore flow. By late afternoon, the wind increases and begins to cool the onshore marine layer, allowing the fog and low clouds offshore to progress inland without evaporating. Cloudiness streams in over the Bay and through the various gaps. How far the clouds can penetrate inland depends on the depth of the marine layer and the strength of the cooling winds.
As night falls and inland areas cool down, the winds usually decrease, but the fog and clouds remain wherever they have blown in until the following morning when the cycle repeats. A land-sea temperature-pressure gradient is not always necessary to drive the marine layer and low clouds onshore into the Bay Area. Winds ahead of an approaching cold front or low pressure system can also push the marine layer onshore. Another pattern variation occurs in connection with heat spells that reach the coast from inland.
Such heat waves typically occur when an area of high atmospheric pressure orients itself in such a way that the northerly to northeasterly gradient becomes dominant, driving the marine layer out to sea south and west of the California coast. These spells typically end with what is called a "southerly surge", when the northerly gradient relaxes, allowing the marine layer to "slosh back" up the coastline. Yet another variation occurs when the upper air becomes turbulent.
Turbulence above the marine layer inversion can, depending on its severity, break up the marine layer. The most common causes of such turbulence are strong upper level low pressure areas, or the monsoon which occasionally extends northwestward from the desert areas of the U. There are also occasional extended spells when fog and stratus "overcast" do not clear all the way back to the coast for several days.
These extended periods of cloudiness are usually a consequence of a weak area of low pressure above the marine layer which increases its depth, making it more difficult for surface heating to evaporate the clouds within it.
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Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. This became more than a matter of mere discomfort. As Corton reminds us, fog was a killer too. The ferocious fog of brought death every week to hundreds of victims of bronchitis and other lung conditions. Muggers and pickpockets thrived amid the blinding curtains of fog.
Fog poisoned the soul as well as the lungs. Heavy drinking became associated with the disabling effects of a miasma; to be befogged was to be befuddled. November, the commonest month for fogs, was also the likeliest for suicides.
Corton is eloquent on the ways in which Whistler mastered the atmospheric effects of light and fog on the Thames. Just as standing before a Constable rain painting might encourage you to open an umbrella, so proximity to a Whistler fog has you reaching for a torch — or calling for a linklighter. In Monet visited London just to paint the fog, hiring a room at the Savoy overlooking the river.
He deplored Sundays when the trains and factories stopped mixing in their smoke: That might have drawn a hollow laugh from the asthmatic Londoner for whom the smudged outlines of streets and sunsets were not objects of delighted contemplation.