Five Fun Facts About Fog

I've got my head in the clouds. Literally. It has been foggy for the past week, during which time I have learned some intersting facts about la nebbia.

1) Fog smells. It smells, well, like FOG. It has a smoke-but-not-smoke odour to it. Not overly pleasant I might add.

2) Fog gets frozen. Frozen fog is strange stuff. It pelts your face when you are riding your bicycle, but not in the way that snow or rain does. It is more like a mist of ice--similar to when you are at Niagara Falls in the winter.

3) You can see frozen fog in the air at night. The light hits the little crystals, and it looks like sparkels in the air. It's as if you are in a snow-globe of sparkles.

4) Fog makes it hard to breathe. In the words of one of my students when leaving school the other day: "Oh look Sarah! La nebbia. Now we will all get bronchio-pulmonia!"

5) Fog is 100% humidity. 100%!!!