North Atlantic Skyline » fog http://johnsmyth.ie/blog Despatches from the West of Ireland. Fri, 18 May 2012 23:53:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Telegraph Road http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2011/01/14/telegraph-road/ http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2011/01/14/telegraph-road/#comments Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:59:11 +0000 John Smyth http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/?p=3292 Telegraph Road
The N59 road between Oughterard and Maam Cross succumbs to a rolling wall of fog billowing from Lough Corrib on Christmas Eve morning, and infused with the golden glow of the rising sun.

]]> http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2011/01/14/telegraph-road/feed/ 4 Lackavrea, Part II http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2010/10/28/lackavrea-part-ii/ http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2010/10/28/lackavrea-part-ii/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:12:04 +0000 John Smyth http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/?p=3134 Sunrise at Lackavrea, part I
Taken on the same morning as Part I, on the road that divides Corcóg from Lackavrea.

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If you were anywhere between Galway City and Maam Cross last Tuesday morning, all you would have seen was …very little, as a wall of fog billowed off Lough Corrib. West of Maam Cross, it was clear, as a star-filled night sky gave way to the clear blue of morning.  Driving towards Maam Bridge from the west, the fog began to blow west from the lake towards the sea – and around Lackavrea, the hill that overlooks the lake’s western edge.

]]> http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2010/10/18/sunrise-at-lackavrea-part-i/feed/ 4 Marina at Carrick-on-Shannon – Part 1 http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2010/04/08/marina-at-carrick-on-shannon/ http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2010/04/08/marina-at-carrick-on-shannon/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:06:51 +0000 John Smyth http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/?p=2317
The icy fog on Christmas morning was so thick that the bridge over the Shannon at Carrick-on-Shannon wasn’t visible from the marina. A month earlier In January¹, the water level was much higher – floodwater was lapping around the entrance of the buildings just visible on the right of the picture.

¹ Original post referred to flooding last month. It was actually January – this post has been scheduled for a couple of months

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