dry fog

American  

noun

Meteorology.

1. a fog that does not moisten exposed surfaces.

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Example Sentences

Day follows day, month follows month, without a cloud; the air is pure and dry, fog is unknown.

From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

It was a light, dry fog, and for two or three hours the deck, and rigging, and the clothes of those on board remained quite dry.

From Lost in the Fog by De Mille, James

The "Flash" had glided into a dense bank of dry fog, and the Captain could not see a yard beyond the panes of glass.

From The Little Skipper A Son of a Sailor by Fenn, George Manville

Another famous instance was in 1783, when a dry fog, lasting for a month, covered the northern parts of America, and Europe from Sweden to Africa.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

The first of these was in the year 526, when a dry fog covered the Roman Empire with a red haze.

From The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire by Morris, Charles