On 27/05/2015 14:31, Graham Easterling wrote:
Meanwhile, at Perranuthnoe, where I ended up this morning, for half an hour the beach steamed enough to give a band of mist 800 yards or so across.
Mobile phone pic & explanation @ http://www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk/steamer.html

Excellent photo Graham.

Something we get a lot of around here during humid weather and a
southerly breeze is cloud abruptly forming half-way up the cliff face
with the top shrouded like the Table Cloth on Table Mountain.

I take it that this could be a similar effect that the air, saturated
with humidity after passing over hot, wet sand is then forced to travel
up the cliff-side and cools slightly forming a perpetual, stationary but
evolving cloud.

Next time it happens I will have to take a photo though a video would be
far more impressive.

I have stood on the cliff top when this was happening and you get soaked
very quickly but it is a very warm soaking. Reminds me of when I got
soaked from the mist of the Trade Winds straight in off the sea.

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Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk