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Low, steaming fog that forms when very cold air passes over relatively warm water.
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Name the low fog produced when frigid air meets warmer water.Wrap a winter harbor or coastline in a low, eerie veil of vapor.
Words that belong together
- sea smoke over a harbor
- tendrils of sea smoke
- sea smoke rising from the water
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Sea smoke curled off the harbor while the water remained strangely dark.
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- sea smoke
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A meteorological term for vapor fog over relatively warm water in cold air, not smoke from a fire.
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