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    • JamesDick1957J
      JamesDick1957 | Premium
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      I would really like to see a marine fog prediction tool. This would be very useful for paragliding in my coastal location. This condition changes coastal soaring into cross country paragliding.
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      • idefix37I
        idefix37 Sailor Moderator @JamesDick1957
        last edited by idefix37

        @JamesDick1957
        Fog is in any conditions very difficult to predict.
        The fog you describe is an advection fog. It appears locally when a low layer of warm and humid air moves over cooler surface. It is can be observed under cloudy skies along coastlines where air moves from the warm water to the cooler surface of land.
        Along some coasts in summer, the hot air over the land is cooled over the colder waters. So the direction of a low wind speed is important to consider.
        Did you try the Fog prediction by ICON in Windy ? Not sure it works so well.
        It predicts foggy conditions in north coast of Brittany today.

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        Note in the point forecast table the chance of stratus is predicted.

        See some related posts
        https://community.windy.com/topic/27324/no-fog/2?=1725176774304
        https://community.windy.com/topic/8319/about-fog-forecast?
        =1725176774310

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