ApocaDocs: Northwest's unusually foggy summer mystifies experts

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Posted Mon Jan 17 2011: from McClatchy Newspapers:


	Northwest's unusually foggy summer mystifies experts http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1295226180 The summer of 2010 was the foggiest on record in the Pacific Northwest, according to a researcher dubbed "Dr. Fog" by his colleagues. Record levels of fog were reported in Seattle, Portland, Ore., Olympia, Wash., and from North Bend, Ore., to Quillayute, Wash., along the coast, said James Johnstone, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Washington's Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Oceans who's focused on West Coast fog. Though the increase in fog is consistent with global warming computer models for the West Coast, Johnstone said there were other factors in play, with California actually becoming less foggy as the Northwest grew foggier.

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'Doc Jim says:

Fog, by its very nature, is supposed to be mysterious!