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Mist is a phenomenon of a liquid in small droplets floating through air. It can occur naturally as part of natural weather or volcanic activity, and is common in cold air above hot water, in exhaled air in the cold, and in a steam room of a sauna.

 


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It was on the ninth of November [...] He was walking home about eleven o'clock from Lord Henry's, where he had been dining, and was wrapped in heavy furs, as the night was cold and foggy.

mist"1. A suspension in the air consisting of an aggregate of microscopic water droplets or wet hygroscopic particles (of diameter not less than 0.5 mm or 0.02 in.), reducing the visibility at the earth's surface to not less than 1 km or 5/ ...

Mist
Similar to fog, but visibility remains more than a kilometre.
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Mist
Similar to fog, but visibility is greater than 1 kilometre.
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MIST: Drizzle or heavy fog.
MIXING RATIO: In a system of moist air, the dimensionless ratio of the mass of water vapor to the mass of dry air.

Mist (BR) A visible aggregate of minute water particles suspended in the atmosphere that reduces visibility to less than 7 statue miles, but greater than or equal to 5/8 statue miles.

Mist- very fine water droplets at ground level that occur in air with a ><><><><><>Monsoon- a seasonal change in wind direction bringing dry air or heavy rain.
MSL- Mean sea level.

Mist - Consists of microscopic water droplets suspended in the air which produce a thin greyish veil over the landscape. It reduces visibility to a lesser extent than fog.

Mist
Suspension in the air of microscopic water droplets or wet hydroscopic particles, which reduce the visibility at the Earth's surface.
Moderate Breeze
Wind with a speed between 11 and 16 knots.

MIST - very fine water droplets at ground level
MIXING DEPTH- The vertical distance the process of convection mixes the air from the surface to aloft. The mixing depth is often the same depth as the PBL.

Mist Very thin fog in which visibility is greater than 1.0 km (0.62 mi).
Mistral A katabatic wind that flows from the Alps down the Rhone River Valley of France to the Mediterranean coast.

Mist Very thin fog in which visibility is greater than 1.0 km (0.62 mi).
Mixing ratio Mass of water vapor per mass of dry air; expressed as grams per kilogram.

mist—A popular expression for drizzle or heavy fog.
mixing ratio—The ratio by weight of the amount of water vapor in a volume of air to the amount of dry air; usually expressed as grams per kilogram (g/kg).

MIST
A collection of microscopic water droplets suspended in the atmosphere. It does not reduce visibility as much as fog and is often confused with drizzle.
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Scotch Mist To some people, Scotch mist is what you sip while sitting in front of a roaring fireplace in the winter. But my frame of reference is strictly meteorological! ...

Mist: Obstruction of visibility in the superficial layers of the atmosphere, caused by suspended water droplets. By convention, the term applies when the visibility is above one kilometer.

Mist - Water droplets so small that they are floating in the air. Because mist droplets do not fall, mist is a type of fog.

Mist
A horizontal visibility of more than 200 metres but less than 6 miles caused by water droplets in suspension in the atmosphere.
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Many haze formations are caused by the presence of an abundance of condensation nuclei which may grow in size, due to a variety of causes, and become mist, fog, or cloud. Hazemeter Name sometimes given to a transmissometer.

According to the National Weather Service, some of the obstructions to visibility include blowing and widespread dust, fog (including freezing fog and patchy fog) haze, mist, sand and blowing sand smoke, blowing spray, and volcanic ash.

See ice-crystal haze, arctic mist.Ice GorgeIn hydrologic terms, the gorge or opening left in a jam after it has broken.Ice JamIn hydrologic terms, a stationary accumulation that restricts or blocks streamflow.

The color varies from blue inside to red outside and the phenomenon is attributed to diffraction of light by thin clouds or mist (distinguished from halo).

Liquid or solid water formation that is suspended in the air includes clouds, fog, ice fog, and mist. Drizzle and rain are example of liquid precipitation, while freezing drizzle and freezing rain are examples of freezing precipitation.

Diamond dust (ice needles, frost in the air, frost mist) A type of precipitation composed of slowly falling, very small, unbranched crystals of ice which often seem to float in the air. It may fall from a high cloud or from a cloudless sky.

Mizzling: A term used by Henry David Thoreau to describe weather combining thick mist and drizzle: a mizzling rain. North American usage may be peculiar to New England. Term is also found in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey.

Contrast is enhanced by haze, dust, or mist. These rays are more likely to be seen in the late afternoon, as clouds come between the sun and the observer. A similar effect occurs when the sun shines though a break in a layer of clouds.

Maritime Tropical air forms over oceans in the tropics. Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. These air masses contain fog or mist, low stratus clouds, poor visibility, high humidity, with rain and drizzle.

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Browse Related Terms: Blowing Dust or Sand, FG, fog, Grout Curtain, Ice Crystals, k, MIST, sm, Smoke
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As it is always found at ground level, the most obvious effect of this type of fog is a reduction in visibility, which may drop to as low as 10 feet in thick fog. If visibility is between 0.5 and 1.25 miles (1 and 2 km), the fog is known as mist.

circle or set of concentric circles of light of small radius seen around a luminous body, esp. around the sun or moon. The color varies from blue inside to red outside and the phenomenon is attributed to diffraction of light by thin clouds or mist ...

mist Liquid particles 40 to 500 microns in diameter that are formed by condensation of vapor in air.

See also: Weather, Air, Water, Fog, Visibility

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