Re: [Paddlewise] Crossings in Fog

From: Robert C. Perkins <rperkins_at_fayettevillenc.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 22:22:14 -0500
John Winters asked:

How many of you paddle where fog can be a problem?   I do

How many of you know that you paddle where fog can be a problem?  I know

How many of you carry a sling psychrometer in your boat. If you do not have
sling psychrometer do you carry an accurate hygrometer, a thermometer and
the dew point charts?  I don't

Do you know how an why fog forms?  Yes

I have paddled a bunch of hours on a reservoir that was constructed in
order to provide water for cooling a nuclear power plant.  If I go there
when the air is cold and there is no breeze, I can encounter fog.  I've
also been there on a very hot summer day, no breeze, when an inversion of
some kind produced something akin to fog.  The lake isn't particularly
large, but it has lots of arms, and getting disoriented in the fog isn't
particularly difficult.

Bob

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Robert C. Perkins, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research and Planning
Methodist College, Fayetteville, NC 28311
910-630-7037     rperkins_at_methodist.edu


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