Was down at Yals on the weekend and there was this cool looking mist rising up the coastal hills looking north?
Wind blowing over the warm water picks up more moisture than the air can hold as it cools down on contact with the cooler land.
was it early in the morning following a clear night?
that be the stuff that rusts everything. salt laden air has nowhere to move and kinda condenses a bit as the land rises. best i can think of.
Ah what you have photograph is probaly nimbostratus or stratocumulus cloud formation. (Low level clouds or mid).by the looks of the pic these clouds will harvest tiny water droplets or crystalised water depending on the air mass temp.one will ask how l know all this my son is studing nephology at the moment .These clouds are usually at a attitude of between 5000 mtrs to 18000 mtrs.enough said.
Nimbo/nimbus, means rain bearing. Cumulus is well cumulating -growing, gathering, getting bigger usually vertically- hence a cumulonimbus (Cb) is a rain bearing cumulus cloud.
Unless I was looking at something else on the video, I don't believe it is either nimbostratus nor stratocumulus.
Saltiest1, so what you would've fallen through was nimbostratus.
Yes,.. t's usually the simplest answer, and we got it in the first reply.
No, not low level cloud...
I originally thought condensing moisture forming fingers of fog (or low level cloud), but it really seems to start at the breaking waves, so I am actually with those thinking is it ocean spray being carried up with the wind. ie no condensation has occurred, just water droplets taken or thrown up from the ocean surface being picked up and carried along.
+1 for saltwater spray from breaking waves. You can calculate how far inland you are if you carefully measure the salinity of rainwater... More salt in coastline rain from sea spray.