CITY residents and in other areas in Region Four (Demera-Mahaica), on Wednesday morning awoke to heavy fog blanketing their communities and severely reducing visibility.
Such conditions are usually a norm for residents living at Timehri, along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway and in communities such as Linden, Ituni, Kwakwani and in the hinterland, but seldom in the city.

By the time the fog-like conditions began clearing up around 07:00hrs, social media was abuzz with FaceBook members posting varying suggestions as to the possible reasons for the sudden climatic condition. Some of the comments included, `In times like these we look and live, God’s timing…’; I got up this morning and I was like, where this smoke coming from, then I realised it was not smoke’; ‘ Must be a sign from above’; `There’s about to be a new sheriff in town, hence the heavy fog’; `Our nation is in sorrow, as such it is weeping’; `our nation was crying out for justice.’

Also, one “booker” drawing attention to excerpts of the biblical passage of Deuteronomy Chapter32, posted, “Listen, O heaven and I will speak; And Let the earth hear the words of my mouth; 2; Let my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, as the light rain upon the tender grass, and as the spring showers upon the herb….”

Meanwhile, sources told this publication that an Omni International Airline transporting ExxonMobil employees from Texas with an ETA (Expected Time of Arrival) of 02:00hrs at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, was unable to land due to poor visibility. The plane was forced to turn around and wait out in Puerto Rico until it was given the all-clear to return to the CJIA and landed at 09:48hrs.

This publication also learnt that residents of Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) who are accustomed to early morning misty conditions, were taken aback by the extremely hazy conditions that they described as out of the ordinary.

According to Wikipedia, fog begins to form when water vapour condenses into tiny liquid water droplets that are suspended in the air. It can be considered a low-lying cloud, usually stratus, and is heavily influenced by nearby bodies of water, topography and wind conditions. In turn, fog had affected many human activities such as shipping, travel and warfare.