according to the Santa Cruz Sentinel.) If you're interested in capturing your own fog, a standard fog kit can be purchased for $1,800 ($2,500 with shipping) through Bayside Fog Collectors, run by one of Dr. (Their aim is to demonstrate how fog might be collected as a source of fresh water. He and his "fog squad," a group of UC Santa Cruz students, have used fog collectors, made of mesh, wire and wood, to capture the fog on the school's hillside farm, which overlooks the Pacific Ocean. And then there are other fog events where it’s just like it’s raining."ĭr. "There's overcast, and dry, or there's soupy fog - but it's not really wet, and there isn’t any wind associated with it. Peter Weiss of the Physical and Biological Sciences Division at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The higher cumulus, and even higher cirrus clouds, are much cooler, even freezing, and they're also much less dense."įog can vary greatly, according to Dr. "Fog clouds are very warm, and they're very wet. With the right equipment, it is easy to differentiate between fog and other clouds, according to Alicia Torregrosa, an environmental scientist with the U.S. The National Weather Service defines fog as visible moisture that begins at a height lower than 50 feet. So why is it so foggy in San Francisco and how did it come to be named Karl? Let us explain. When the fog would roll back in, I felt that great relief." He tells SFGATE the fog felt like a "release, like an exhale when you’ve been holding your breath." "I noticed if we had a few sunny days in a row, I’d start to get a little edgy. "It was much easier to ease into a day after a long night out if it was foggy," he said. Billy Cohen, a former New Yorker who has lived in San Francisco since 1990, first fell in love with the fog when he was booking nightclubs back in the late nineties and working late hours.
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