A Fog Effect
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Hi, I'm Bryan Yeaton and this is The Weather Notebook. Commentator Chuck Kruger takes a peak behind a curtain of fog.

I've experienced those quiet days when all the landmarks I know disappear and I'm left clueless in the middle of pea soup. And then, if I'm not rushing for a ferry, I discover I sometimes have odd imaginings. For example, once when my mother from upstate New York died back in 1995, I found myself fantasizing that each onset of fogs a careful declaration, yet another mother is dead and desperate for her child as she embraces all the earth about. The stones and shrubs. The sheds and chimney pots, the boats, the cows, the thrift, the curling wave, searching. And then she happened upon me within sound of sea and I am talking to her. Oh my mother, thorough as ever, you have me in your arms and know at last, your dead. And we're intimate as if I'm in your womb again and all about me is only you. She lifts, she swirls, she rises. And I am left confirming this last fog bank's but another mother newly dead, come to hug her boy the great goodbye.

Chuck Kruger comes to us from Cape Clear Island in Cork County, Ireland. The Weather Notebook is a production of the Mount Washington Observatory with help from Subaru of America and The National Science Foundation. Thanks today to Executive Engineer, Sean Doucette.