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I worked the early shift yesterday and had to leave the house right at dawn. I rode down the driveway and, across the road, the neighbors field was surrounded by a fog fence about 4 ft high and less than a foot thick. The field had been disked and planted recently, so there is just a thin carpet of green there but there is a boundary of weeds between it and the road. But, the weed strip is about 6 - 8 feet wide, so that doesn't really explain why the fog was only a few inches wide. Just plain strange... We are maybe 180 miles from Roswell, maybe the aliens did it.
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Should be Riding
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That's gotta be it! I think they ran out of fields to graffiti and have resorted to the newer less permanent fog circles.
Soren
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Dew point! Dew point! Dew point!
It's all about the local temperature and local moisture concentration of the air. Since this field had just been turned and planted it may be releasing a small amount of moisture near that ground that then dissipates. Since there is a higher level of moisture concentration this raises the dew point above what the more macro local environs is. Abbracadabra! Localized Fog! As the moisture dissipates into the local surroundings, the dew point is lowered and Tah Dah! No Fog! Really not all that weird with a basic understanding of thermodynamics.
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i always love when i get to see other types of science injected into my own day (i'm a biochemist/physiologist/neuroscientist)
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If you had walked out 5 minutes sooner,you would have seen the UFO lifting off.
The percentage you're paying is too high-priced
While you're living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams
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Sure it wasnt the Mountain Dew
You! Off My Planet!
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Fe Butt
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Maybe it was what was in the Mountain Dew.
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I like Mountain Dew. Any questions?
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Musta been a collection of virga and anomalous propagation.... 
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Quote:
Musta been a collection of virga and anomalous propagation....
I had no idea of what you say.... so here's what I found:
"Anomalous propagation and virga have one big similarity, but they are different phenomena. The similarity between the two is that they both appear as precipitation on radar when it is actually dry at ground level.
Virga, as you know, is precipitation that falls from the base of a cloud, but evaporates before it reaches the ground.
Anomalous propagation is something that can happen to radar beams when the temperature gets much warmer with height, as you go to a higher altitude, in the part of the atmosphere where the weather occurs. (Usually, it gets colder with height through the lower part of the atmosphere, but when it gets warmer as you go higher, through a chunk of the atmosphere, it is called an inversion.) Strong inversions can cause radar beams to strongly bend, or refract, into the ground. When a radar beam bends into the ground because of this refraction, the radar image can show something that looks like rain or snow over an area that is actually dry."
Thanks! 
George
Freelance Observer
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Yeh......Weird! 
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Now in the deep south.. Newcastle.
Cold winters, cold rain
Come on summer
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3/4 Throttle
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yep your right it was the aliens ! they have got fed up with doing crop circles and have started fog fencing now. 
2003 black and silver T.B.A A1 removed,Specialty Spares long slashed Pipes .
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