River North, Chicago
One morning last week I was walking to work and it was so cold and the wind was so strong that it was making this strange, ghostly fog? steam? I don’t know what you’d call it.
Take a while to get used to it, then tell me if you like these larger sized photos.
8 responses so far ↓
1 mike // Nov 23, 2005 at 8:59 am
The larger photos eat into the sidebar on Safari.
2 tien // Nov 23, 2005 at 9:05 am
you’ve got the bandwidth, the megapixels, and the photos, i was wondering why you didn’t already make the switch.
3 rachelle // Nov 23, 2005 at 9:07 am
laziness. i need to fiddle with the column widths and on different browsers and resolutions and stuff. i just wanted to see what it would look like .. prob wont be able to make more changes til after the long weekend bc ill be travelling.
4 Nancy // Nov 23, 2005 at 5:27 pm
I have a 19″ monitor so the photos being larger look nice. They dont bother me none.
5 Crissy // Nov 23, 2005 at 5:49 pm
I thought I had posted a comment earlier, but it isn’t here, so here goes again:
The photos are fabulous! I’ve never seen anything like that on the river before — looks more like something you’d see out here over the ocean!
6 mom // Nov 24, 2005 at 6:41 am
I don’t see anything to click on for Larger sized photos???
7 joe // Nov 27, 2005 at 10:30 pm
Wispy fog like that forms when the air is much colder than the water body it is passing over. It doesn’t take much to saturate cold air, so water evaporating from the river quickly condenses right above the surface, forming the fog. The wind rapidly mixes the fog below with drier air above and the fog evaporates. This type of fog has several names, most commonly steam fog, evaporation fog, or sea smoke. It is funny how once once you’ve taught a subject it all comes back to you in a flash…
8 Funky Claude // Nov 28, 2005 at 1:36 pm
No it’s not Funky Claude, it’s ChrisM, but I hope some get the reference to the title of the post.
What is coming of the water? I’d just call it water vapor.
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