The Eastern Region of Ghana for many years has been a home of many strange and natural weather phenomena.
Our planet Earth; as they say is a dynamic planet that experiences changes daily. The continues changes in the earth’s weather patterns; and the many other atmospheric events that we experience on earth, are tremendous part of that change.
These changes in weather patterns, and the various weather phenomena that occurs on earth, are necessary for our planet to continue to be life-sustaining.
Weather phenomena; according to Scientists, are “natural events that occur as a result of one or a combination of the water cycle, pressure systems and the Coriolis effect. They often involve or are related to precipitation, wind or heat”.
Some of these weather phenomena are; Rain, Snow, Lightning, Thunderstorms, Hurricane, Rainbow, Hail (super-cooled water, which is refrozen in the atmosphere, before falling back to the ground as a sizable ice ball), Dust Devils (a column of circulating air, which picks up dust and other debris from the ground), Haboob (Giant walls of dust that form in desert areas in front of a thunderstorm cell), and many more.
One other natural weather phenomenon that hit parts of the Eastern Region of Ghana this dawn is Fog.
By the dawn of Saturday, 24 September 2022; between the hours of 3am and 5am, the land of Kpong and its surrounding communities in the Eastern Region were covered with a dense Night-Fog.
Fog is a common weather phenomenon which often add beauty to our landscape.
According to science, fog is a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth’s surface, which obscures or restricts visibility (to a greater extent than mist; strictly, reducing visibility to below 1 km).
This special weather phenomenon called Fog; when it becomes dense, can be hazardous to many things and people drivers, mariners and aviators.
Those night travelers who happened to pass by Kpong and its surrounding communities withing the ‘fog hours’, will realized that, the fog was so dense to the extent that, it had adverse impacts breathing.
The two to three hour night fog, also made vision very difficult; creating blurred vision for distant objects. The situation was so irritating; causing coughs and sniffles (instinctive action of inhaling quickly to prevent mucus from flowing from one’s nose).
While the formation of these weather phenomena may be a simple process, knowing where and when it may occur may help keep travelers out of possible dangers.
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