NaNoWriMo progress in the fog

[altivo]

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Hazardous weather outlook overnight. Fog with zero visibility. We get those, it's scary if you're driving and amazing otherwise. The weather forecaster on the radio announced "zero visibility or less" which left me wondering what less than zero visibility would mean. You could only see backwards into your own head maybe?

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[soanos.livejournal.com]

Hehehe... Well, the announcers do sometimes say the most baffling things.

Zero visibility is not very good for driving, indeed. But I have done it.
It is a bit odd, but also makes me feel strange. Like I was driving in clouds. :P

The only thing posing a threat in that visibility is other drivers that drive way too slowly, and animals. A risky thing indeed.

Anyway, how is the weather there? It is around 0 degrees Celsius here in Kuopio, Finland. Sleet. But there wasn't much snow to beging with. Much more in the south.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

We are having an unseasonable warm spell after an early hard frost. High temperatures have been in the 15-17 C range for a couple of days, which is why we get the fog at night when it cools off.

[alaskawolf.livejournal.com]

i hope you have a good set of fog lights on your vehicle, they can be a great help.

we usually get some really thick ice fog up here where its -40F or colder or sometimes warmer

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Nope, no fog lights. I don't find that they do much of anything useful.

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Well, they do. They turn the fog white and blind you :P

ALso, someone might notice approaching bright spot and steer back on their side of the road, or where they think it should be :)

But anyway, fog lights in the front aren't that useful. But that bright thing in the back is actually useful.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

My answer to zero visibility fog is not to move until it clears. Too many people seem to think that anything they can't see doesn't exist.

I actually had a very spooky and scary fog experience last winter. We had a night where the weather service was issuing warnings about dangerous fog, and my boss decided to send me home because I have the farthest to travel of all staff here. I gave in and left. It was not bad for the first couple of miles, and then turned into a weird sort of ground fog that was a total whiteout from about the height of a meter down to the ground. So you could see to avoid any large object, such as a vehicle or a deer, but you could not see the road surface at all. Around here, falling off the edge of the road is a distinct risk, though you only end up in a ditch and not over a cliff. Believe me, I drove very slowly for about eight miles, and I went down the middle of the road. I met no traffic, and no one came up behind me. It was extremely spooky.