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Mangalore: Thick Fog Affects Landing of Aircrafts

  •   Thu, Mar 17 2011 08:29:55 AM

Mangalore: Thick Fog Affects Landing of Aircrafts

Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)
Pics by Soorthy Ullal

Mangalore, Mar 17: Coastal Karnataka has been experiencing thick fog in the mornings since the last couple of days. As the local airport was completely enveloped in fog, landing of several flights were affected on Wednesday march 16.

The Air India Express (AIE) flight from Dubai, which arrived here at around 6.10 am on Wednesday, could land without any problems. However, the AIE flight which came from Kuwait later was diverted to Kozhikode because of the fog. It returned here at 10 am.




The flights of Jet Airways and Kingfisher, which were to touch down here after 8 am, went back to Bangalore, and returned at around afternoon. The fog affected the visibility in the mornings, with thick fog having been seen between 6.30 am to 8 am.

On Wednesday evening, clouds hovered around the city and surrounding areas. Temperatures in the afternoon and evening have been steadily rising, and lack of wind movement has been contributing to sweltering heat.
  

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  • Shashi Shetty, Santhoor/Manipal

    Thu, Mar 17 2011

    I have lived in Udupi near Padubidri for 21yrs in my young age .. another 18yrs on and off. I had never come across something called fog of this magnitude ever in my life except for last 1 year. now a days we are seeing this fog once in almost every 2 weeks. I have a strong doubt of moisture content of escaped steam from UPCL is causing this fog.

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  • Ravi Kumar, Mangalore/Kuwait

    Thu, Mar 17 2011

    Thank you Alwyn for the elaborated explanation about Fog & Clouds. Its very useful.

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  • Alwyn, Mangalore - USA

    Wed, Mar 16 2011

    Fog can be considered a cloud at ground level. The processes forming it, however, are usually different from those that form clouds.

    Like clouds, fog is made up of condensed water lets which are the result of the air being cooled to the point (actually, the dewpoint) where it can no longer hold all of the water vapor it contains.

    For clouds, that cooling is almost always the result of rising of air, which cools from expansion. But for fog, which occurs next to the ground, there are usually other reasons for this cooling.

    For instance, rain can cool and moisten the air near the surface until fog forms.

    Or, as is more often the case, infrared cooling of a cloud-free, humid air mass at night can lead to fog formation - this is called "radiation fog". Radiation fog is most common in the fall, when nights get longer, airmasses begin to cool, and land and water surfaces that have warmed up during the summer are still evaporating alot of water into the atmosphere.

    Finally, a warm moist air mass blowing over a cold surface (usually snow or ice, or over a cold ocean surface) can also cause fog to form-this is called "advection fog".

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