OcklePoint
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I agree with Ken McC
Haar is fairly specific to the North Sea coast and is usually a spring/early summer event. Something to do with cold water and warm winds, or is it warm wind an cold water.
It can be a real curse in Edinburgh. If you live near the shore you can spend a week in cold dark clammy stuff when half a mile up the road is in glorious sunshine
On the West Coast it's just fog
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Teredo
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Loc: Kingdom of Northumbria
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Ken, haar is in use here, as well as fret.
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bilbobaggins
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Loc: The Shire
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'Haar' is derivative in the Northumberland and Fife dialects from Norse/Dansk roots, and one will hear it used from Aberdeenshire to Whitby.
There is also 'Smirn', which also describes a tiny-droplet, soaking drizzle - which is one step up from 'haar'. It's the same stuff....
Just as the Inuit have close on a thousand words for snow, so do the Scots have a similar number of expressions for rain - not all of 'em repeatable on a family show!
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Hyperborean
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Loc: Orkney
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Sea fog/Haar. Formed when air which is close to saturation passes over a colder surface ie the sea. This causes cooling of the air mass so bringing the temperature down to the dew point. The moisture condenses out as fog or drizzle. This is a more dynamic process that the gentle cooling over land which is why sea fog can be found in 40kts of wind. Incidentally in my experience of the East Coast of Scotland it is more prevalent in SE rather thn NE winds.
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PyroJames
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Loc: Cambridge
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Bloody annoying!
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Jimi
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We used to call that mixture of mist and drizzle mizzle
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OcklePoint
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We used to call that mixture of mist and drizzle mizzle
We still do, too often
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LakeSailor
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Loc: ation : Lake District
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Used to be called a roke (spelling?) in East Yorkshire
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kds
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Loc: Somerset
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"Burnham Blight" on this side of the Bristol Channel.
Ken
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sarabande
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Loc: Thames valley, or up on the mo...
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FWIW on Exmoor, I've heard low cloud and fog described as "myseling".
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