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Re: (meteorobs) Re: meteorobs-digest V3 #223
>I live, and observe near the coast (South Carolina) and can verify the
>"haze" that is often encountered here. It is usually in the warmer months
>though, and not too much trouble this time of year. I have always associated
>it with the high humidity, but that may be incorrect (any weather gurus care
>to set the record straight?).
Well, you know I'm no weather guru, Mark - more a "weather sufferer" up here
in New England. :) But one thing I will comment on - I think the seaside haze
people often comment on has more to do with the proximity of a large LANDMASS
to the water, than to the water itself... I say that because, observing from
the Florida Keys (surround by the battlezone between the Gulf of Mexico and
the subtropical Atlantic Ocean), I have only rarely seen anything like "haze"
in the sky overhead. One CAN often see seamist rising up to 5o or 10o above
the ocean. But this basically never noticeably affects the sky overhead. And
there are times when 1st magnitude stars (such as Acrux) are visible all the
way to -1o altitude - thanks to the refraction of the atmosphere!
But maybe with regard to sea haze - as with so many other things - Southern
Florida is very different from the rest of our Eastern Seaboard?
Lew Gramer, now sadly much further up-coast
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