An unusual weather system blanketed much of the North Shore in a cool, eerie fog for a record number of days this week.
Photographs by: photo Mike Wakefield
Cranes in the shipyards near lower Lonsdale stand motionless in the fog, Oct. 23. Photograph by: photo Mike Wakefield.
The dense fog bank that’s recently given a horror-movie cast to some familiar landmarks had been hanging around the south coast for eight days by Thursday — breaking the previous record for fog in October.
“This fog bank has just been really stubborn and persistent,†said Matt MacDonald, a meteorologist at Environment Canada.
MacDonald said it’s possible the fog could hang around until the weekend.
The thick fog has been caused by a ridge of high pressure — which usually brings warm sunny weather — essentially trapping stagnant layers of moisture-saturated air in low lying areas for the past week.
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