Tule fogとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtuːli fɑɡ/

名詞

tule fog (複数形 tule fogs)

1. A thick, persistent ground fog, canonically found in parts of California's Central Valley, where it forms from late fall through early spring (rainy season), which may contain cold or freezing drizzle.
   • 1918, School Science and Mathematics, page 751:

     Tule fogs last until they are "burned off" by the sun or are displaced by the wind.

   • 1968, Joan Didion, “Notes from a Native Daughter”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:

     When summer ended—when the State Fair closed and the heat broke, when the last green hop vines had been torn down along the H Street road and the tule fog began rising off the low ground at night— […]