Pogonip Fog at Mono Lake

[ski3pin]

In my most recent trip story I mentioned the pogonip fog enshrouding the Mono Lake Basin. I just noticed this story about the ice fog -

Notable Poconip Fog at Mono Lakehttps://www.monolake.org/today/notable-poconip-fog-at-mono-lake/

 

[AWG_Pics]

Interesting. In the Salt Lake Valley and around Boise the winter fogs will settle in and stay for a week or two sometimes. Often rimes form on all the trees and bushes, creating fantastical shapes. They call them inversions, but seem like a similar phenomena. A short drive to any higher elevation pops you right out into the bright sun and blue skies.

 

[pvstoy]

Interesting. In the Salt Lake Valley and around Boise the winter fogs will settle in and stay for a week or two sometimes. Often rimes form on all the trees and bushes, creating fantastical shapes. They call them inversions, but seem like a similar phenomena. A short drive to any higher elevation pops you right out into the bright sun and blue skies.

Here we get the inversion layer fog and can last a few days to weeks. If you want to see the sun and warmth we head up to Tahoe, Some people can get really bad depression. . So cold and damp Pogonip forms on everything.

When I lived in Mammoth Lakes I remember a friend driving into the fog at Mono Lake and instantly the windshield was iced over.

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Very nice photos of that fog.
Frank

 

[teledork]

I can confirm that the pogonip has been epic. When you add in the incredible (and suddenly) disappearing right hand lanes I decided the section of the drive around Mono Lake has been the crux of every ski trip since December.

 

[craig333]

Thankfully its been rare for years now but we once had fog for a solid month. People got seriously depressed not seeing the sun. I'm okay if that doesn't happen again.

 

[teledork]

Thankfully its been rare for years now but we once had fog for a solid month. People got seriously depressed not seeing the sun. I'm okay if that doesn't happen again.

That photo is of a mild case. A couple of mornings so far this winter the fog was just a short distance below the viewpoint. One morning I woke to fog on Deadman Summit - the next high point to the south.