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the air pretending to be water and getting away with it

means Obscured or blurred by mist or haze, or by extension, mentally unclear and unfocused.

from Built from 'fog,' a word that drifted into English in the 1500s with murky origins of its own — possibly related to a Scandinavian word like Danish 'fog' (spray, drift) or to 'fogg,' an old term for long, rank grass left standing in a field, the kind of damp, mossy ground where mists love to gather. The '-y' is the plain English suffix that turns a thing into the quality of having lots of it, so 'foggy' literally means 'full of fog.' The mental sense — a 'foggy' memory or a 'foggy' head — came later, the brain borrowing the weather's habit of swallowing detail whole.

droplet size
clouds that touch the ground, technically the same thing
visibility rule
under 1 kilometer or it is just mist
foggiest place
Grand Banks of Newfoundland, over 200 days yearly
harvesting water
giant nets in Chile drink fog for towns
london killer
the 1952 Great Smog killed thousands silently
for instance

san francisco bay — karl the fog has a twitter account with 300k+ followers and appears ~100 days per year

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