We’ve been getting a lot of fog here in the last couple weeks in the Seattle Metro area. While I was down with the pneumonia there were two days when it just never left. 1500 in the afternoon and it was pea soupy enough I couldn’t see up my street. We’ve also been getting some cold nights.
Last night was the best of both worlds. Or worst, depending on your mindset.
The fog set in for the night around 2100. By midnight, you had to put your wipers on low relay to keep your windshield clear enough to see out of. By 0200, spending more than a couple minutes just standing in it meant that I had to get out a Kleenex and wipe my glasses off and make sure to shake as much of the condensation off my coat as possible when I re-entered the building.
As I was leaving work at 0400, the cold snapped. I work at sea level and live about 400 feet above it. My whole trip home was marked by black ice and fog thick enough to make traffic signals very short notice items. We’re talking 50 feet of warning as to whether the light was red or green. If you got one of the newer LED signals, you might have gotten an extra 25 feet of warning, but not much more.
I know I am not a sadist because only a sadist would listen to this mornings traffic reports. Me, I’ve got other stuff to do.