Lou Pickney's Online Commentary
Dense Fog
Thursday
February 22, 2007
For the second time in two weeks, the AccuWeather plug-in that my brother Matt installed on my Firefox browser came in handy.
I woke up at 6:30 and flipped on the computer this morning, which is the norm for my routine. It's pretty straight-forward: listen to the radio (typically Howard Stern, but this week it's been music with Stern being on vacation), check e-mail (and maybe a couple of websites), shave, shower, and head to work.
But as I opened GMail, the "Severe Weather" box popped up, telling me that something was going on in the area. It has been guilty of plenty of false positives before, with nonsense like high wind advisories for open water, but in this case it was helpful: the diagnosis was dense fog in the Alabaster area.
COMBINATION OF LIGHT WINDS AND ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE HAS ALLOWED DENSE FOG TO DEVELOP.
Shades block the view to the outside from my bedroom, but I peeked through them and saw a translucent mask of cloudy fog hovering in the parking lot, preventing me from seeing the apartments up on the hill beyond a shadowy outline.
It wasn't a severe weather situation per se, but it let me know that I was likely going to need some extra time this morning, and so I started my whole getting ready process earlier as a result. Traffic was snarled more than normal, but I made it to work on time. As always, information is power.
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