The weather

Please don't hate me for posting about the weather. Wink

On a clear day, the view from the windows at the front of my house enables me to see the countryside, which is a couple of miles or so away as the crow flies. On a clear night, I can see street lights twinkling in the distance, which I find rather comforting.

During the past year, I feel the percentage of clear days and nights has been extremely low. If it's not been mist preventing me from having a clear view, then it's been fog. When the weather is misty or foggy during the day, it can cause me to feel rather downbeat and more likely to want to hibernate indoors. When the weather is misty or foggy at night, I can find it rather spooky.

One thing I particularly dislike is when it is dark outside, and I can barely see the residential dwellings on the other side of my road due to thick fog. I can find it rather unnerving, and sometimes it can seem as though the fog is seeping into my house and filling the rooms, like a scene one might expect to see in a horror film.

However, if visibility is reduced as a result of snow falling, I have no issue whatsoever and generally tend to feel quite excited. I'll be that person who points towards the windows and states the obvious... "Look! Look! It's snowing!". Rather than wanting to hibernate under a duvet, I'll find it difficult to drag myself away from looking out of my windows.

Does anyone else find it unsettling when the weather is misty and/or foggy?

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  • I almost live in "the sticks" and it's a very short walk into the countryside. I start work early in the morning and at this time of year I leave the house and I can see the stars and it makes me feel very small in the grand scheme of things 

    As the weather turns colder I just want to hide away but I have two dogs that need wandering so it keeps me going.

    My idea air temperature is probably around 16-20 degrees, so in the UK May or September ISH, I really don't like the heat or cold.

    I like nice calm weather as changes in air pressure really bother me, it's like having a built-in barometer. 

    Fog doesn't bother me unless I have to drive in it, I like it's sound deadening properties, it's a bit like heavy snow.

  • Last week I drove 40 minutes in the fog, and I found that nobody uses fog lights. Even though visibility was 10 metres or so. Does it just not occur to people or do they not get taught it by instructors?

    One of the roads I drove on was a steep single track lane and the visibility was very poor. Twice I had to reverse back up to let cars coming the other way past.

    Driving in the fog felt very mentally taxing - I felt exhausted when I got home. It's because of not being able to see much, you have to really be on edge the whole time, reacting quickly to changes in the road or traffic or signs since you only see them very late.

  • When I was in my teens, there was an occasion when I had been in the car with my parents. We had been travelling on a motorway at night and suddenly found ourselves driving through thick swirling fog. As car journeys go, it had seemed truly terrifying.

  • That would have been terrifying for good reason, I've heard horror stories about what can happen in foggy weather. 

    . It couldn't be more November right now

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