Most of the time weather is pretty normal. Sunshine. Rain. Wind. Clouds and stuff. The classics. Sometimes, however, it’s not normal. Sometimes conditions combines so that Sydney‘s coast gets shrouded in a big, thick midday fog.
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Giving off visuals very strongly reminiscent of The Mist, a big ol’ bank rolled over Bondi and Coogee this morning, before dissipating more broadly over the coast:
Mist/Fog coming through Coogee pic.twitter.com/DFhplXwKIh
— John Raptis (@raptisj68) December 17, 2018
Coogee right now 🌫🌫🌫 pic.twitter.com/R70zrsKFEw
— Sophia Phan (@Sophia_Phan) December 17, 2018
Midday fog at Coogee @abcsydney @abcnews pic.twitter.com/4k8rBoDhrP
— Sarah Hawke (@sarah_e_hawke) December 17, 2018
Midday Summer fog at #coogee #beach #australia #fog pic.twitter.com/IF5fbaQKo5
— Chris Hall 💧 – @Platform_Journalism@aus.social (@Sydney_Dialect) December 17, 2018
Never seen anything like it. 3pm and a fog has swallowed Bondi pic.twitter.com/I43KM2hePi
— booster mc juister (@MudKnuck) December 17, 2018
Sea fog slipped into Bondi for lunch. pic.twitter.com/P2wLDvzh3I
— David Brown (@DavidWBrown7) December 17, 2018
A rare afternoon weather event to see North Bondi shrouded in fog @7NewsSydney pic.twitter.com/tfhuzYynmO
— Samantha Brett (@samanthabrett) December 17, 2018
As this handy gif from Weatherzone shows, the mist was happily making its way up the coast offshore before it was so rudely intercepted by an easterly and deposited on the coast:
Sea fog being transported along the central coast of NSW this morning before being blown onshore by a sea breeze. More details and photos of it shrouding Bondi Beach here: https://t.co/xLDm2AGdv3 pic.twitter.com/vM5BRGdAOa
— Weatherzone (@weatherzone) December 17, 2018
According to Weatherzone, the temperature humidity allowed for the perfect conditions for the fog to form and to remain in place. They noted that while sea fog is not rare, it is somewhat unusual at this time of year.
No word yet on whether the fog is full of terrifying extradimensional monsters, we’ll keep you posted if that’s the case.
