Sign up Sign in. Russian Ukrainian. English US. Simplified Chinese China. Question about English US. What is the difference between foggy and hazy and misty? Feel free to just provide example sentences. Report copyright infringement. The owner of it will not be notified. Mist and fog both occur when there are water droplets in the air. When warm water in the air cools quickly, the droplets change from invisible to visible. That might not sound like much, but when it comes to your morning commute, a visibility of only 50 meters ft will slow everyone down enough to cause major delays.
Radiation fog happens when the temperature is cold and there are no winds. When the land cools, the air become less able to hold moisture and water begins to condense in the air. This is the fog that happens on early winter mornings, which is burned off when the Sun comes out. Some types of fog only occur over certain geographic formations. Upslope fog happens on hillsides, and coastal fog unsurprisingly happens around the coast.
It can be caused by evaporation fog, which happens when cold air passes over warmer water or wet land; it can be contained over areas like backyard swimming pools or hot tubs. And advection fog happens when wet air moves over a cooler surface and water droplets condense as the air is cooled. There's very little differentiation inside, it's just heterogeneously a little less bright, and you can't see as far and it looks whiter in the distance, but there are no noticeable cloudy areas.
Outside of it like from a mountain top you really do see that it is a cloud. Mist is to me a kind of rain, or barely rain at all just a noticeable wetness in the air that an umbrella just really doesn't do anything to stop. You don't really see it falling but standing out in it, you eventually get wet. Also, since language isn't logically consistent, a 'mister' outputs mist which looks like a small scale fog, a fog machine outputs very small scale fog that is hardly at all wet.
Hazy, foggy, and misty tend to follow all these but not always perfectly and usage would be modified as needed by idioms. Both fog and mist apply to conditions in which water is suspended in the air, which decreases visibility.
Part of the reason for their being two such words is that once there was mist goes all the way back to Old English and foggy coming from the separate sense fog which is a type of grass, or metaphorically a mess , and then fog came from people shortening foggy.
It is generally taken that fog is thicker than mist. Just where the difference is between the two depends on who you are asking. In the UK, as far as driving laws go when it's required and when it's forbidden to use fog-lights fog is when your visibility is m or less, but other people who have a reason to set a precise rule on the matter may set it differently. Having started to learn to drive under the UK rules, and having more lessons under the Irish rules, I never heard anything more precise for the latter than "that sounds about right" after I explained the British.
Haze was historically used to mean a particularly thick fog, but is now taken to mean a particularly light case. In figurative use, they overlap similarly, and similarly fog is generally heavier and haze lighter: A couple of beers might have you a bit hazy, while a night's drinking followed by a couple of joints would have you decidedly misty. If you need a precise answer, then it depends on the context you need to be precise in relation to e.
In everyday usage, the difference between them is much looser. Then the weather guessers had to mess things up. In my mind they are NOT the same Drizzle gets everything wet, fog unless it is really thick, doesn't. Sign up to join this community.
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