Question

Explain how, in late winter, with snow covered ground and a southeasterly wind, advection fog could develop at Atlanta’s International Airport (located in the US Southeast, over 200 miles from the ocean) to create low visibility and flight delays.

Answer 1

In late winter with snow covered ground and a southeasterly wind advection fog could develop at Atlanta’s International Airport (located in the US Southeast, over 200 miles from the ocean) to create low visibility and flight delays. This is because when warmer air from the ocean moves to the land surfaces where the Atlanta’s International Airport is built on, it comes in contact with it .

When the air cools, the temperature reduces to the dew point temperature. This allows for increase in saturation levels necessary in the production of fogs.