ground fog

From Glossary of Meteorology
  1. According to U.S. weather observing practice, a fog that hides less than 0.6 of the sky and does not extend to the base of any clouds that may lie above it.

As an obstruction to vision in an aviation weather observation, ground fog is encoded GF.


  1. See radiation fog.
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