file under: catching fire

walking to the subway stop early yesterday morning after work, the quiet downtown core was shrouded in the weirdest blanket of fog i've ever seen. where it was thinnest, you could see that the sky was blue above - no clouds to speak of. that made the fog itself look more like smoke from a de-centered fire, like you were walking either into or away from a disaster zone of some kind.

i'm sure it's simply what happens when the air reaches 100% humidity without the usual accompaniment of cloud cover. still, the technical explanation fails to convey the weirdness of the phenomenon, because that shit was seriously bizarre.

[update tuesday morning: about 8 photos of the fog can be found here.]