into the cloud
Jan. 18th, 2009 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslSince this mixture of fog and sunshine is so unusual to me, I decided to explore the boundary.
From my apartment, the more downhill and the more Southwest you go (i.e. the closer to the ocean), the foggier it gets. Totem Residence and Marine Drive are pretty foggy, even at the upper floors.
West Mall is ~200m away and ~5m lower, and it's been having a consistently foggy day. Where I am, it's about 50/50.
Since I don't have a camera, I have to settle for a few thousand words.
Optical phenomena:
* on the way to the stadium, sunrays passing between the pinetrees: very beautiful
* the reflections of the sun through glass windows envelop me inside a star... in a pattern similar to something seen in Japanese cartoons.
... with not a person in sight (not saying much, though)
Then I saw an Asian woman doing Tai Chi behind the pine trees... it felt like a movie.
Weather phenomena:
As soon as you go into the fog, it feels colder.
I biked inside a parking lot, and saw the cloud following the asphalt, creeping its way uphill... until a few seconds of sunlight make it disappear. The causality seems to go both ways: fog <==> cold
Since it's quite a nice day for the time of year (at least uphill campus), I decided to bike around campus. Just as I got home, it's foggy again.
I wonder how unusual it is for Vancouver to have such a sunshine/fog mixture.
From my apartment, the more downhill and the more Southwest you go (i.e. the closer to the ocean), the foggier it gets. Totem Residence and Marine Drive are pretty foggy, even at the upper floors.
West Mall is ~200m away and ~5m lower, and it's been having a consistently foggy day. Where I am, it's about 50/50.
Since I don't have a camera, I have to settle for a few thousand words.
Optical phenomena:
* on the way to the stadium, sunrays passing between the pinetrees: very beautiful
* the reflections of the sun through glass windows envelop me inside a star... in a pattern similar to something seen in Japanese cartoons.
... with not a person in sight (not saying much, though)
Then I saw an Asian woman doing Tai Chi behind the pine trees... it felt like a movie.
Weather phenomena:
As soon as you go into the fog, it feels colder.
I biked inside a parking lot, and saw the cloud following the asphalt, creeping its way uphill... until a few seconds of sunlight make it disappear. The causality seems to go both ways: fog <==> cold
Since it's quite a nice day for the time of year (at least uphill campus), I decided to bike around campus. Just as I got home, it's foggy again.
I wonder how unusual it is for Vancouver to have such a sunshine/fog mixture.
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Date: 2009-01-19 12:45 am (UTC)I wonder how unusual it is for Vancouver to have such a sunshine/fog mixture.
We get this around once per year. We also have some occasional pea-soup-thick fog, during the first seasonal instance of which I invariably walk outside and wonder if i forgot to put on my glasses, because fog that thick simulates moderate nearsightedness quite well.