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Most impressive fog
By adamg on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 7:30pm
The gloom approaches, as seen from the bridge crossing over the train tracks in Readville.
Around 6:30 or so, I was in Readville, where you could get a very nice view of the this big gray/black blob enveloping downtown - or at least, where downtown was supposed to be - even as the sky over Readville was still mostly blue (with some thunderhead-like clouds building up to the south). Almost looked more like smoke from a huge fire than clouds. Went shopping at the Hyde Park Shaw's (alert Steve Garfield: Looks like they're getting ready to change some of the aisles around!), by the time I got out, around 7, the gloom had enveloped Hyde Park and Roslindale. Wasn't particularly dense, but, man, did it make everything sticky.
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That explains it
By 6:30 it was so dark here in town that I double-checked the time of today's sunset (7:50pm) to make sure I hadn't woken up in October or something. (:o)
weird downtown too
When I saw the fog rolling in as I was heading to the T at State Street, I too wondered if it was smoke! I can't remember the last time I've seen fog roll in so quickly and completely. As a weather geek it was quite sight to see.
I was downtown as well, and
I was downtown as well, and it was quite strange indeed - I also thought it may have been smoke at first.
Crazy End of the World Fog!
I was going back to Cambridge from St. James St. downtown around 6 p.m. and I felt these odd patches of cool in certain areas, kind of like when you go swimming and there's a cold spot that is markedly different than the water around it.
After that I was biking over the Salt & Pepper bridge and it was such a spectacle that I had to literally stop and dismount my bike to look back and consider the cosmic implications of this crazy fog. It was really quite ominous and had hungrily enveloped half of the city!
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
Its a Heinlein novella, and the erasing fog reminded me of it. I won't spoil, but I do find it funny that the fog started at about the 13th floor.
My husband took some pics from the Longfellow when I alerted him to it by sending him pics from Haymarket. It erased everything above the 15th floor or so, giving Beacon Hill an bygone days feel. I already get the "Emerald City" feeling walking up Congress Street into the financial district, but this was creepy.
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
Totally changed my attitude about mirrors.
;~}
Global warming!
From Central Square, it looked as if Cambridge was sunny, but Boston had a thick smog. I'm sure it was a distance illusion, but I decided that it was in fact the inevitable consequence of Cambridge residents' embrace of bicycles, Priuses, vegetarianism, and other low-carbon-footprint activities. We win.
Downtown Fog - Brrrr !
I crossed the fog line somewhere around Leverett Circle, about 5:50 pm, as I was biking into town to see the OperaBoston performance at Christopher Columbus Park. West of the fog line, it was warm and sunny. East of it, it was downright chilly, and quite a challenge to both the performers and audience.
I too wondered whether I was riding toward some sort of huge smoky fire.
By 8 pm, it seemed to mostly clear, and I headed to the Common for Shakespeare. Unfortunately, they abruptly stopped the performance at 8:45 and sent everyone home in anticipation of an approaching thunderstorm.
You should have seen it from Logan...
Where I was. You could see it coming in from Massachusetts Bay, slowly but surely. First Boston Light disappeared, then one Harbor Island after another. If it had been in its liquid form, I would have thought, well, this is it. There was an earthquake on the mid-Atlantic ridge, and this is the Tsunami they said could never happen here.
It was really impressive and beautiful in the abstract, but what I really liked about it was that it was soooo New England. The sucker MCs in NYC were roasting their butts off, and our wonderful, cold ocean turned on the air conditioning for us. That is just so New England. Forever tied to, and at the mercy of our ocean up here on the outpost at the northeast corner of the Republic.
It's a blessed relief
I was melting all last night.
Do you still think so now?
'Cause I'm soggy.
Some shots taken from Cambridge
Some shots taken from Cambridge --
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87614014@N00/tags/fog81109/