Newfoundland Fog Facts
Season-by-season the Ode to Newfoundland , sings like some sort of musical weather forecast. The sun gets mentioned, snow gets suggested, blinding storms and wild waves get name-checked but nowhere in there is a description of fog. How weird is that? For my money, fog is the definitive Newfoundland weather phenomenon. If you visit and you don't find yourself in a fog bank, at least once, I'm not sure you've really had the full Newfoundland experience , and you certainly won't understand our penchant for colourful houses. Fog is part of the rhythm of life around here. Fog can swallow a blue sky in minutes and turn a warm summer evening into a sweater and jacket affair faster than you can sigh about it. We've learned to live with it. Argentia (on the Avalon Peninsula) gets over 200 days of fog a year and the Grand Banks is possibly the foggiest place on the planet ! What makes Newfoundland such a foggy place? Image by Treeman, CC by 2.5 . The reason for New
