tule fog
noun/ˈtuːli fɑɡ/US
Etymology
Named for the tule wetlands of the Central Valley of California in the United States, where it forms.
Definitions
A thick, persistent ground fog, canonically found in parts of California's Central…
A thick, persistent ground fog, canonically found in parts of California's Central Valley, where cold air from the Sierra Nevada collects on the valley floor during the cooler part of the year and causes moisture to condense into fog or cold/freezing drizzle.
- Tule fogs last until they are "burned off" by the sun or are displaced by the wind.
- When summer ended—when the State Fair closed and the heat broke, when the last green hop vines had been torn down along the H Street road and the tule fog began rising off the low ground at night—[…]
- This sentiment spreads like thick tule fog today. Ask the former San Diego mayor who commandeered the Light Up the Border forces at the San Diego-Tijuana[…]
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA