...by fog. A thick fog descended upon Swift Current this week, coating the trees, houses, car antennas, and anything not moving under it's own free will with hoar frost. Sure it looks pretty, but hoar frost on power lines means power goes out. On Wednesday and Thursday I can say without exaggeration that the power went out more than a dozen times. So, the computer stayed off. I went for physio on Wednesday morning and while I was standing there waiting for my appointment to begin one of the "good ol' boys" came in and, as sacred tradition for said Good Ol Boys Club mandates, commented on the weather.
Here is the conversation:
Good Ol Boy: "Some fog, huh? Well, you know what this means...in 90 days it'll rain. Good news for the farmers."
Receptionist: "Really? Fog means rain in 90 days?"
Receptionist: "Really? Fog means rain in 90 days?"
Good Ol Boy: "That's what they say...either that or wind"
Hmmmm, so what we've learned from this exchange is that fog is a surefire way to predict that in 90 days there will be either rain or wind. In Saskatchewan. Rain. Or Wind. So if it doesn't rain, it'll definitely be windy. Huh. You don't say. And people scoff at superstition.
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Is hoar fog a way to say Ice Fog (as I know it) or just a polite way of saying it's so foggy it could be called Whore Fog? Please explain.
this post = funny
Darwin
not to poke fun at your scorn for "good old boy" weather predictions, but wasn't this posted about 90 days ago?
I maintain this is a fluke. They were predicting a wet summer prior to the fog ever settling over the city. And what about the areas of the southwest that didn't have fog but received rain? The reason they predict that it will happen in 90 days is because back then no one could count to 90. I say that if it's foggy that means in 3.56 years a volcano will erupt somewhere either above land or below the ocean.
There's a 93 year old neighbor at home who would seriously take you to task on this one. He has plotted the fog - 90 days - rain on his calendars for years; and in country as dry as Saskatchewan we notice when it rains!
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