The F-word — it's fog, relax — has a lot of Newfoundland drove
CBC News | Posted: November 22, 2024 6:00 PM | Last Updated: November 22
Triple the dense fog? That's how it's been in St. John's and Gander this month
If your glasses — and everything else in your life — have been fogged up lately, you're not alone. Much of Newfoundland has been bathed in thick fog, often with dreary rainfall.
St. John's and Gander have seen more than triple the hours of dense fog than usual through November so far.
Newfoundland has been stuck in a pattern of milder air moving over the colder ocean and the cold Labrador current flowing southward along the coast and running into the warm Gulf Stream.
It can be magical, a little bit mysterious, but fog can also play with our moods, especially as the island has been socked in for days.
Some are making the best out of an otherwise damp situation.
Brothers Bill and Kenny Tuff of Marystown are bottling Newfoundland fog.
"We managed to harness something that's so iconically Newfoundland and so embedded into our culture and bring it into a whole new format for people to enjoy in a premium spirit."
That spirit? Vodka.
The Tuff brothers bottle up 70,000 cases annually.
To hear more about Newfoundland's most recent bout with fog, and to see meteorologist Ashley Brauweiler's explanation of what's going on, click on the video above.
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