What is the difference between mist and fog?

Question

What do we see in the early morning is it fog or mist?
It recedes as the sun rises high.

Answer 1

When warm air passes gently over colder sea or land surface the air in contact with the colder surface also cools. If the air is cooled below its dew point, the air releases moisture and the water droplets settle on the land surface this is DEW. Some of the water droplets settle on the dust particles, pollutants, salt present in the air. These water droplets remain suspended in the air as they are very small and light. These suspended water droplets form MIST.
MIST: size of water droplets is less than 1 micron, and the visibility is about 1 Km.

When the size of waterdroplets increases to between 1 to 10 microns the mist becomes dense and ,is called as FOG.

FOG: size of water droplets 1 to 10 microns and visibility less than 1 KM.

Mist is always there before and after FOG.

Hope it suffices.

Answer 2

Difference Between Fog And Mist

Answer 3

Mist Fog

Answer 4

Fog is in transition between a liquid to a gas Mist is still a liquid Vapor is a gas And only if you are speaking of something in scientific terms can you use all 3 in a sentence. The fog settled over the lawn and left a misting of dew on the grass, thus leading to a vapor of gas's in our ozone when it burns off with the rising sun.

Answer 5

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What is the difference between mist and fog?
What do we see in the early morning is it fog or mist?
It recedes as the sun rises high.

Answer 6

Mist - is a phenomenon of small droplets suspended in air. It can occur as part of natural weather or volcanic activity, and is common in cold air above warmer water, in exhaled air in the cold, and in a steam room of a sauna. It can also be created artificially with aerosol canisters if the humidity conditions are right.

The only difference between mist and fog is visibility [1]. This phenomenon is called fog if the visibility is one kilometer or less. Otherwise it is known as mist. Seen from a distance, mist is blueish, while haze is more brownish.

Strong superstitious and religious connotations are associated with mist in some cultures.

Mist makes a light beam visible from the side.

Scotch Mist is a mist with larger than normal water droplets, which penetrates clothing. Supposedly, this kind of mist is common in Scotland.

Mists usually occur near the shores, and is often associated with fog.

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Fog is a cloud in contact with the ground. Fog differs from other clouds only in that fog touches the surface of the Earth. The same cloud that is not fog on lower ground may be fog where it contacts higher ground such as hilltops or mountain ridges.

The foggiest place in the world is the Grand Banks off the island of Newfoundland, Canada. Fog is frequent here as the Grand Banks is the meeting place of the cold Labrador Current from the north and the much warmer Gulf Stream from the south. The foggiest land areas in the world are Point Reyes, California and Argentia, Newfoundland, both with over 200 foggy days a year.

Characteristics
Most types of fog form when the relative humidity reaches 100% at ground-level. Fog can form suddenly, and can dissipate just as rapidly, depending what side of the dewpoint the temperature is on.


An important exception to the general rule is sea fog. This is due to the peculiar effect of salt. Clouds of all types require minute hygroscopic particles upon which water vapor can condense. Over the ocean surface, the most common particles are salt from salt spray produced by breaking waves. Except in areas of storminess, the most common areas of breaking waves are located near coastlines, hence the greatest densities of airborne salt particles are there. Condensation on salt particles has been observed to occur at humidities as low as 70%, thus fog can occur even in relatively dry air in suitable locations such as the California coast. Typically, such lower humidity fog is preceded by a transparent mistiness along the coastline as condensation competes with evaporation, a phenomenon that is typically noticeable by beachgoers in the afternoon.

Fog occasionally produces precipitation in the form of drizzle. Drizzle occurs when the humidity of fog attains 100% and the minute cloud droplets begin to coalesce into larger droplets. This can occur when the fog layer is lifted and cooled sufficiently, or when it is forcibly compressed from above. Drizzle becomes freezing drizzle when the temperature at the surface drops below the freezing point.

Fog reduces visibility. Although most sea vessels can penetrate fog using radar, road vehicles have to travel slowly and use low-beam headlights. Localised fog is especially dangerous, as drivers can be caught by surprise. Fog is particularly hazardous at airports, where some attempts have been made to develop methods (such as using heating or spraying salt particles) to aid fog dispersal. These methods enjoy some success at temperatures below freezing.

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Answer 7

Mist - is a phenomenon of small droplets suspended in air.
Fog is a cloud in contact with the ground.

Answer 8

I would think that mist is falling from the sky downward, whereas fog is suspended in the air.

Answer 9

The size of the water droplets. 'Mist' has larger droplets than 'fog'


Doug

Answer 10

spellings are different.