dry fog

American  

noun

Meteorology.

1. a fog that does not moisten exposed surfaces.

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Example Sentences

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

In the year 1782 the sun was for many weeks obscured by a dry fog, and appeared red as through a common mist.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

The snowstorm offers a problem analogous to the dry fog.

From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor

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

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