Smoke

iwant2believe2

Honorable
A well defined area in my county, that includes my neighborhood, will periodically be enveloped in a thick odorless smoke. Entering this area is like hitting a wall. Visibility extends about an arm's length. Driving is dangerous and the city will post smoke warnings. The smoke is sudden, odorless and dry. I would describe it as somewhat dirty white to pale yellow. No one seems to know what it is or where it originates from or why its border is so defined. Anyone have similar in their hometown or any clue what it is?
 

3FEL9

Islander
A well defined area in my county, that includes my neighborhood, will periodically be enveloped in a thick odorless smoke. Entering this area is like hitting a wall. Visibility extends about an arm's length. Driving is dangerous and the city will post smoke warnings. The smoke is sudden, odorless and dry. I would describe it as somewhat dirty white to pale yellow. No one seems to know what it is or where it originates from or why its border is so defined. Anyone have similar in their hometown or any clue what it is?

I Have it right now outside.. But mine's moist fog caused by the proximity to the sea here.. I'll take it yours is not

Do you happen to live near a coal or Bio fired power plant ?
 

Merle

Honorable
I get something similar often enough, both day or night, Summer or Winter where I live but mainly after certain types of weather conditions.

In my case it's fog and is so dense that you're lucky to see the end of your car in front of you when driving, hence why a number of people where I am use fog lights (also helpful when there's smoke) at times like that to drive.

Though sometimes, because I live in a bushfire prone area and if they are burning off or there's a bushfire somewhere, the dense smoke is called smoke, but if the smoke is mixed with fog it's called smog (mostly looks dirty and or yellowish). In addition, in the Mountains where I live quite a number of people have wood fires during Winter with the smoke consistently polluting their air, also called smog...

We sometimes have smog sitting over city areas if there isn't enough wind to blow away an accumulation of car and factory and city created pollution...
 

iwant2believe2

Honorable
I Have it right now outside.. But mine's moist fog caused by the proximity to the sea here.. I'll take it yours is not
Do you happen to live near a coal or Bio fired power plant ?

Actually I am right across from the sea but this is entirely different from the fog that rolls in. I don't really know how to explain it.

No plants I am aware of. The odd thing is that not even the city gives an explanation.
 

iwant2believe2

Honorable
This is not fog or mist. It is dry like smoke but, unlike smoke, there is no odor at all. We do occasionally have brush fires here and that has a distinct odor. This smoke is just odd. When I say it's like hitting a wall, I mean it's like a clear glass plane vertically separating the smoky area from the non smoky.
 

3FEL9

Islander
Actually I am right across from the sea but this is entirely different from the fog that rolls in. I don't really know how to explain it.

No plants I am aware of. The odd thing is that not even the city gives an explanation.

You say the city post smoke warnings.. Well, pay a visit to the local health/environment department and demand answers.
They can not just post warnings without tryin to find the cause to it,, Can they ?
 

iwant2believe2

Honorable
No but next time it happens I will take some and of the signs. I looked on the county website last time but found no info. Next time I will check the dept of transportation as they would be in charge. I would like to know where it comes from and why it behaves so oddly.
 

Dundee

Fading day by day.
When we get things like this in Australia the weather report on TV always talks about it. Do they just ignore it and say nothing or do they say its there but they don't know why?
 

iwant2believe2

Honorable
When we get things like this in Australia the weather report on TV always talks about it. Do they just ignore it and say nothing or do they say its there but they don't know why?

No one comments about it and those I have asked just don't know. I'm sure there is a logical explanation. I just find it weird the way it stays contained to an area. Just odd. I don't know.
 

Merle

Honorable
No one comments about it and those I have asked just don't know. I'm sure there is a logical explanation. I just find it weird the way it stays contained to an area. Just odd. I don't know.

If per chance it is fog (especially if it's mist) then I don't find it odd that it stays contained in one area... I see it sit like that fairly often. You can be driving along with no idea that just around the corner sits a dense wall of fog... keep driving through the dense fog and then suddenly find that you have driven straight out of it into sunshine.

There is a science behind all this as to why, but I have no idea what it is other than it has something to do with landform, changing weather and atmospheric conditions..... Being in the Mountains means that I can also see the fog (or mist) in the distance contained only in specific areas between valleys or halfway up mountain rises, just sitting there like a blob not lifting...

Once when I was watching the fog roll it from the back door of the house I noticed that when the fog settled, it was contained (only for a short while) just over my backyard between the boundary fences on both sides of my property so my property was blanketed by thick fog yet I could clearly see into neighbouring backyards because they had no fog... that one looked odd and eerie ...
 

Castle-Yankee54

Celestial
You say the city post smoke warnings.. Well, pay a visit to the local health/environment department and demand answers.
They can not just post warnings without tryin to find the cause to it,, Can they ?

Good advice......its probably a simple answer if the county issues warnings. Perhaps the seabreeze somehow keeps the odor of wildfires down......just a thought.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Good advice......its probably a simple answer if the county issues warnings. Perhaps the seabreeze somehow keeps the odor of wildfires down......just a thought.

The sea breeze would probably contain trace amounts of salt, I wonder if that helps scrub the odour...?
 

Gambeir

Celestial
OK, More info please...give a general idea where you're hiding out.

We have on-going earth changes. That's never been an issue in my mind. There is/was/has been global warming alright, but it's not coming from the sky, it's coming from underground, from the core of the planet itself.

My belief, and this is critical mind you, is that we are involved in a planetary expansion phase. This has to do with a theory of planetary expansion, which involves the core of our planet functioning as a star which produces matter, because this is what stars do; they make matter out of energies from space. Most of which we know basically nothing about.

What you guys/gals/creatures are now reporting has been in the predictive radical linguistic forecasts created by Clif High, and which is thought to be indications of impending further events.

Thus...it's important to have some idea where you are so that I can keep this in mind in my other communications with other dingbats whom flitter about the web. Could be significant indications of locations. I can forward this info as individual reports where they might be then pitted against changing linguistics for geographic areas.
 

iwant2believe2

Honorable
Hmm well you've just implied I'm both a sucker and a dingbat. Shall I now give out my precise location and add fool to the list? Lol Suffice to say that I'm about as far from Malibu as one can get.

Having done some research around the time periods that I recall, I'm going to put the matter to rest as brush fire smoke meeting unusual (not anomalous) meteorological conditions at the time. If it does occur again, I'll post pictures for the sake of curiosity.
 
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