You can't argue when you can see it happening. I bowhunt the Blue Ridge Mtns. Where the fickle winds are constantly pooling eddying and changing directions. I've been at it long enough I would consider myself an above average judge of wind direction/speed without pulling out my talcum bottle. After all, it isn't "rocket science"! Even here, during the warm weather of Sept.-Oct. the winds are mild and predominantly out of the south/southwest. When the "gales of November" come they're strong and out of the Northeast. We've had three straight weekends of 60-70 deg. temps with mild breezes out of the SW, perfect for my blind. Except this morning there was a pea-soup, wet fog. I wouldn't have even bothered except I left my bibs and gear in the stand yesterday evening (bad move as they were drenched, even under roof). I have a green LED headlamp that I wouldn't have need but for the the fog, due to the full moon. I can't say that it's better than my old red one, but I haven't been busted going to the stand for three months. The weird thing is that with it I could clearly see the ca-billion tiny droplets of water moving by horizontally at a fairly brisk rate. If I'd been asked, I would've said it was dead-calm! I won't argue whether the pattern was typical thermals (as it was moving slightly up the ridge more than just "rising") of just a freaky breeze due to the fog. The one thing that can't be debated is it was wrong for me hunting that stand and I didn't see squat. Yea, yea, I know you're all going to say all the humidity was washing my scent out of the airstream...tell that to the deer!
This is basically a copy of a post I made on a traditional archery sight with a different question. Was I able to observe this because of the LED headlamp, because it was green, or some other reason? I've bowhunted for about fifty years and while I don't like to hunt in fog, I seriously doubt it's the first time I've been out in it. I previously used an incan Maglite with and without a red filter, but never noticed anything like this. To me dense fog in vehicle headlamps looks "solid". This effect was quite striking and surreal, in that the green LED seemed to penetrate it and make the tiny water droplets fluoresce. I'm still amazed I could visually observe that much air movement that I could in no way feel!
This is basically a copy of a post I made on a traditional archery sight with a different question. Was I able to observe this because of the LED headlamp, because it was green, or some other reason? I've bowhunted for about fifty years and while I don't like to hunt in fog, I seriously doubt it's the first time I've been out in it. I previously used an incan Maglite with and without a red filter, but never noticed anything like this. To me dense fog in vehicle headlamps looks "solid". This effect was quite striking and surreal, in that the green LED seemed to penetrate it and make the tiny water droplets fluoresce. I'm still amazed I could visually observe that much air movement that I could in no way feel!
