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Kooyeen Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary
Haze or mist?
Hi,
what's the difference between haze and mist? I think they are both translated as "foschia", but I don't know what to say when I want to say "foschia".
Foschia is when you don't see the hills far away clearly, but you see them a little blurred, and the colors are less bright. But you can see them, even if they are several kilometers away. It's not fog... fog usually hides everything that is not near.
If I got it right, "mist" is halfway between "fog" and "haze". If it is so, then in Italy we call "fog" everything that is not "haze".
Thanks
what's the difference between haze and mist? I think they are both translated as "foschia", but I don't know what to say when I want to say "foschia".
Foschia is when you don't see the hills far away clearly, but you see them a little blurred, and the colors are less bright. But you can see them, even if they are several kilometers away. It's not fog... fog usually hides everything that is not near.
If I got it right, "mist" is halfway between "fog" and "haze". If it is so, then in Italy we call "fog" everything that is not "haze".
Thanks
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I would say the progression is haze > mist > fog. Haze is a light mist, which subdues colours and makes distant objects indistinct. Mist means you can see some distance, but that things further away are blurred.
- I would say the progression is haze > mist > fog.
- Haze is a light mist, which subdues colours and makes distant objects indistinct.
- Mist means you can see some distance, but that things further away are blurred.
- Fog means you can only see things within a short distance - up to 10 m.
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I would say the progression is haze > mist > fog. Haze is a light mist, which subdues colours and makes distant objects indistinct. Mist means you can see some distance, but that things further away are blurred. Fog means you can only see things within a short distance - up to 10 m.
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Hmm. I don't see haze as anything to do with mist or fog.
To me, haze is solid particulate matter in the air -- smoke and/or dust and/or pollen.1 It's not wet.
The wet stuff is fog, mist, drizzle, rain (in order of the size of the droplets). The size has to get to the drizzle point before it falls. Before that, it is simply suspended in the air.
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To me, haze is solid particulate matter in the air -- smoke and/or dust and/or pollen.1 It's not wet.
The wet stuff is fog, mist, drizzle, rain (in order of the size of the droplets). The size has to get to the drizzle point before it falls. Before that, it is simply suspended in the air.
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It may be something that is very English in concept. On a hot day there will often be a haze over the landscape. The air contains enough moisture to make visibility less; distant details become indistinct. Also, in early autumn, when the weather is fine but the nights are cool, the mornings can be hazy until the sun has burnt off the moisture. It is not a mist which contains much more moisture.
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Thank a lot.
Feebs11I would say the progression is haze > mist > fog. Haze is a light mist, which subdues colours and makes distant objects indistinct.That's what I mean. Something that affect colors, and only distant things (several kilometers/miles). So it could also be dust or smoke or something else, it doesn't matter, but it's usually due to h
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The difference between haze and mist has to do with the amount of moisture in the air. If there is a speck of sand, dust, or salt in the air then the amount of moisture collected on that speck defines the type of phenomena, as well as visibility. Haze can happen at any visibility above 5/8's of a mile with humidity usually below 90%, mist must have a restricted visibility of less that 6 miles but
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Actually the treshholdvalue is 80%. below is defined as haze, above as mist. Nice description though.
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