{"id":29071,"date":"2020-06-26T16:54:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T23:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29071"},"modified":"2020-06-27T05:43:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T12:43:34","slug":"fog-drops-on-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29071","title":{"rendered":"Fog drops on web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A recent posting showed a few characteristics of fog: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29049\">fog wave<\/a>. However, fog offers a far richer variety of features than those I showed there. Here is one more: fog drops that have collected on a spider&#8217;s web.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Similar pictures offered on the web are almost always described as being dew drops on a spider&#8217;s web. This is patent nonsense. For dew to condense  on an object, there must be a marked temperature difference between that object and the air. The thread of a spider&#8217;s web is much too narrow to sustain such a temperature difference. Dew does not form on a web.<\/p>\n<p>However, as a collection net for fog drops drifting past, a spider&#8217;s web is superb. While large obstacles distort the movement of the air flowing past them so that the fog drops are merely carried around them, the threads of a spider&#8217;s web are so tiny that they intersect and collect the fog drops.<\/p>\n<p>Fog drops collect on a spider&#8217;s web.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29072\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/spidersweb200625s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A recent posting showed a few characteristics of fog: fog wave. However, fog offers a far richer variety of features than those I showed there. Here is one more: fog drops that have collected on a spider&#8217;s web.\u00a0 Similar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29071\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29071"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29081,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29071\/revisions\/29081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}