A meteorological question..

[drivin_me_nuts]

Is it possible to have fog and a storm simultaneously?

[stuart-b]

Hmmm.

Wouldn't the storm winds clear the fog? Isn't the storm generated by cold and hot air currents? Therefore dissipating the fog....?

[MK4 Slowride]

drivin_me_nuts said:

Is it possible to have fog and a storm simultaneously?

That's how you get ball lightning.


ETA: There was an errant dot or something ok.

Edited by MK4 Slowride on Wednesday 11th March 14:14

[Blib]

Video of a fog storm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z4gyjSBYFc

[Eric Mc]

Ball LIGHTNING even .

Generally, fogs and mists form in still air conditions so the chances of a fog or a mist forming when wind speeds are at storm levels would be pretty low - if not impossible.

[Sciroccology]

St Elmo's fire.

[JRM]

Eric Mc said:

Ball LIGHTNING even .

Generally, fogs and mists form in still air conditions so the chances of a fog or a mist forming when wind speeds are at storm levels would be pretty low - if not impossible.

Could you not have fog or mist at ground level (obviously!) and an upper atmosphere storm above it?

[navier_stokes]

JRM said:

Eric Mc said:

Ball LIGHTNING even .

Generally, fogs and mists form in still air conditions so the chances of a fog or a mist forming when wind speeds are at storm levels would be pretty low - if not impossible.

Could you not have fog or mist at ground level (obviously!) and an upper atmosphere storm above it?

Theoretically I guess yes because ground speed is ALWAYS lower than further up in the atmosphere (for a steady wind) due to the atmospheric boundary layer. I'm not sure the other atmospheric conditions needed for fog and storm could simultaneously coincide though?

[Tunku]

Dunno, but I've been in gale force fog before now.

[loafer123]

I can't see why not, but the wind speeds at ground level would generally have to be low (notwithstanding comment above), so reasonably rare, I would think.

Certainly would be dramatic, given the light transfer of the burst of lightning through all of those billions of droplets of water...!