My telly was telling me we were experiencing an inversion and an half
hour later when I went to the local shop, lo and behold, out of the
ground there was a mist pouring onto the road from the cricket pitch.

It looks just like the sort of mist you see on a film set. Pity
everything is so wet and miserable so no one was out to enjoy it.

So what else is going on that is reminiscent of the recent past?

This week's phase (Jan 3) was at the same time as the one for Dec 20.
(14:01 as compared to 13:57.) That phase brought -or rather, during
that phase, there was an anticyclone and a fog. Then there was a couple
of large earthquakes, so you'd expect this one to be different wouldn't
you.

In a fog, there is plenty of moisture all of it available to
agriculture in the right conditions. When there are plenty of healthy
leaves on trees for example, they can absorb the moisture and put it
into the soil.

Weather stations have no way of measuring any quantity for this
moisture though, so there is no way to compare this spell with the one
that started just before crimbo.