Catalina Island Inversion
January 12th, 2009 by Kelson. Posted in General and tagged for Catalina, Island, ocean, Orange County, photos, SoCal
Catalina Inversion, originally uploaded by Kelson.
The south end of Santa Catalina Island as viewed from Newport Beach this morning around 9am. The winds have cleared out a lot of the haze that would normally obscure the island, and I had a great view of its entire length.
Interestingly, while the sky seemed clearer at 8am than at 9am, by which time a thin layer of gray haze clung to the horizon, the photos taken at 9 are sharper. It’s almost as if the dust settled during that hour, clearing above the layer and obscuring below it.
There was also a definite mirage caused by that same layer. You can tell the lower 1/3 of the island is distorted.
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