4 Fog Facts to Fool Friends and Flummox Family

Jeff Miller
6 min readFeb 3, 2022

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Fog bedevils, obscures, sustains, and sometimes kills. It can arise and envelop a landscape in minutes, transforming the familiar into the foreign before unbelieving eyes.

Its nature seeps into our language: brain fog, fogging, befogged.

Its variety dazzles: advection, radiation, tule, upslope, warm, supercooled.

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Jeff Miller

A culture writer, I enjoy tugging at the sacred, profane, and prosaic threads that shape behavior and belief.