Posted on 02/11/2012 5:48:05 AM PST by SES1066
A misty “tsunami” has hit the coastline of Panama City, Florida, USA. A helicopter pilot managed to capture rare phenomenon and has posted breathtaking photos on Facebook.
JR Hott, who makes his living, flying tourists in a helicopter over the city and the Gulf of Mexico, took photos of clouds of fog developing over buildings while hovering over Panama City’s coastline.
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Same phenomenon can be observed in mountain ranges, for the same reason; in this case, the “mountains” are man-made.
Very cool picture! Reminds me of the movie, “The Fog”.
Without aviation and photography, this is a phenomena that we probably not know or perhaps be able to appreciate.
As the Bard says in Hamlet; "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Oops, being a flat-lander I didn't think of that aspect - I need to get up to the mountains for my soul's sake!
Thanks for the reminder.
You can see such a thing frequently in the Bay Area. Tourists go out to the Golden Gate to watch the wall of fog come whooshing in on sunny late summer afternoons.
It’s very striking to watch the marine layer come and go in certain locales. Just south of Half Moon Bay is another, they’re right on the verge of cool, misty northern California and warmer, sunnier points south.
Who knew?
With the dewpoint temperature level just a few feet above the ground...
--As soon as the moist ocean breeze is lifted above the "upslope" from the sea level to the land surface (and over the buildings)...
...the rising air cools just enough to reach the dewpoint--and voila--the moisture becomes visible as thin fog;
Thence-- this same air descends behind the building--back down the very few feet to the lower, warmer level, and the moisture is evaporated becoming invisible.
So the fog is actually forming on the seaside -- and dissipating on the land side of the beach condos.
It appears to hover-- or be rolling over the shore and buildings...
These are verrry cool photos...
THAT IS SO COOL!
We were eating in McCormick and Colueto’s on a sunny afternoon and off to the west this fog bank moved in and everything in the harbor disappeared.
Famous Bluefield photo:
When I began reading this post, I visioned this EXACT picture and was wondering where I had put my copy!! :-) THANK YOU for posting!! Now I do not need to go searching for it. (My great-uncle Bob and his wife NoraVee lived in Bluefield.)
Stratocumulus Standing Lenticulars.
Where is Bluefield?
That place does have a nice view. On the upside, all the deep bass reverberating foghorns gave it some ambience once the fog rolled back in, lol.
Burke Gardens, Virginia gets that sometimes, too. It’s a sort of bowl formation, unusual on the east coast. It would happen sometimes on the leading edge of intense thunderstorms coming from the north, over the mountain behind my childhood home in NC as well, but not very frequently, and the wind dissipated it pretty quickly.
Its on the border between Virginia and West Virginia at the southernmost tip of WV.
I grew up in the South Bay Area (Silicon Valley). We saw this all the time in the “mountains” to our south and along the peninsula. We called it our natural air conditioning system.
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