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Varkala - Fog Hunter - Kerala

Varkala, Kerala, India

Thick, moody fog for atmospheric forest and landscape shots

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Rule requirements (key thresholds)
Fog Probability · ≥ 75.0%

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Fog Probability 100% failing

Currently

Real-time conditions
Dewpoint Spread3.5°C
Visibility24135 (Clear)
Relative Humidity81%
Wind Speed4.2m/s (calm conditions)

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Times shown in Asia/Kolkata

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What this forecast looks for

Plain-language explanation from the rule

This forecast predicts when morning fog and mist conditions create atmospheric scenes across Kerala's Western Ghats highlands. We track overnight cooling, humidity patterns, and elevation to identify when fog shrouds tea plantations, coffee estates, and mountain ridges while valleys fill with layered mist.

Kerala's Western Ghats hill stations—particularly Munnar, Wayanad, and Vagamon—experience regular morning fog throughout the year, with peak conditions during the monsoon (June-September) and post-monsoon (October-November) periods. The combination of elevation, tropical moisture, and rapid overnight cooling creates ideal inversion conditions where highland plantations emerge from fog-filled valleys.

What makes Kerala fog photography special:

  • Tea plantation mystery - Munnar's geometrically planted tea bushes emerge from rolling fog banks, creating layered green compositions
  • Spice estate atmosphere - Wayanad and Thekkady's cardamom and coffee plantations gain ethereal quality when mist drifts through tropical forest
  • Highland ridges - Vagamon's pine-forested meadows and Western Ghats peaks rise above fog-filled valleys like islands in white seas
  • Wildlife atmosphere - Thekkady's Periyar Lake and surrounding forests become hauntingly beautiful under morning mist

Munnar delivers Kerala's most spectacular fog photography—multiple viewpoints overlook vast tea estates where morning mist creates layers through rolling hills, with tea pickers or estate buildings emerging as focal points. Wayanad's Chembra Peak and surrounding coffee estates experience fog throughout monsoon and post-monsoon periods, with mist moving through tropical forest canopy. Vagamon's pine forests and meadows gain European-alpine character under fog, unusual for tropical Kerala. Thekkady's Periyar Lake becomes atmospheric when morning mist hangs over water and cardamom-forested hills. Top Station near Munnar provides classic viewpoints above fog inversions. Fog conditions are most reliable early morning (5:00-8:00 AM) during monsoon and post-monsoon months—arrive before dawn for best conditions.

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72-hour requirements breakdown

What passed or failed, hour by hour
0matching hours in the next 95 hours
AND logic: all conditions required
Meets requirement
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Time
Asia/Kolkata
Fog Probability
≥ 75.0%
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How to read: colored cells show whether each predicate requirement is met; highlighted rows mean the full rule matched (an opportunity).

What does Fog Probability mean?

Inputs that drive the score

This derived score summarizes multiple raw weather signals. The table below shows the supporting inputs hour by hour, so you can see what's pushing the score up or down.

Time
Asia/Kolkata
Clear Sky Probability (Ensemble)
%
Dew Point
°C
Rainfall
mm
Relative Humidity
%
Snowfall
cm
Solar Elevation
°
Temperature
°C
Total Precipitation
mm
Vapor Pressure Deficit
kPa
Visibility
m
Wind Gusts
m/s
Wind Speed
m/s
Sun, May 24 Sunrise 06:03 Sunset 18:36
18:30
28% 24°C 0mm 81% 0cm 1.2° 28°C 0.13mm 0.69kPa 24135m 7.3m/s 4.2m/s
19:30
39% 24°C 0mm 83% 0cm -13° 27°C 0.25mm 0.61kPa 24135m 7.2m/s 4m/s
20:30
50% 24°C 0mm 84% 0cm -26° 27°C 0.63mm 0.56kPa 24134m 5.9m/s 3.3m/s
21:30
50% 24°C 0mm 87% 0cm -39° 27°C 1.3mm 0.45kPa 24134m 5.2m/s 2.9m/s
22:30
49% 24°C 0mm 86% 0cm -50° 27°C 1.3mm 0.47kPa 24134m 4.8m/s 2.8m/s
23:30
49% 24°C 0mm 87% 0cm -58° 26°C 1.4mm 0.45kPa 24134m 5.5m/s 3m/s
Mon, May 25 Sunrise 06:03 Sunset 18:36
24:30
44% 24°C 0mm 88% 0cm -60° 26°C 0mm 0.42kPa 24135m 4.6m/s 2.4m/s
01:30
40% 24°C 0mm 88% 0cm -56° 26°C 0mm 0.39kPa 24134m 3.6m/s 2.2m/s
02:30
35% 24°C 0mm 90% 0cm -46° 26°C 0mm 0.34kPa 24135m 4.4m/s 2.5m/s
03:30
33% 24°C 0mm 90% 0cm -35° 26°C 0mm 0.34kPa 24134m 4.2m/s 2.3m/s
04:30
32% 24°C 0mm 90% 0cm -22° 26°C 0.06mm 0.33kPa 24135m 4m/s 2.2m/s
05:30
30% 24°C 0mm 91% 0cm -8.3° 26°C 0.13mm 0.31kPa 24135m 3.1m/s 1.9m/s
06:30
29% 24°C 0mm 90% 0cm 5.6° 26°C 0.13mm 0.31kPa 24135m 2.8m/s 1.9m/s
07:30
29% 24°C 0mm 86% 0cm 19° 27°C 0.19mm 0.47kPa 24135m 2.2m/s 1.6m/s
08:30
28% 24°C 0mm 80% 0cm 33° 28°C 0.31mm 0.73kPa 24135m 2.5m/s 1.4m/s
09:30
28% 24°C 0mm 76% 0cm 47° 29°C 0.38mm 0.98kPa 23923m 3.8m/s 2.4m/s
10:30
28% 24°C 0mm 73% 0cm 61° 30°C 0.63mm 1.1kPa 19958m 4.9m/s 3.9m/s
11:30
28% 24°C 0mm 75% 0cm 73° 29°C 1.5mm 1kPa 20567m 5.4m/s 4.4m/s
12:30
36% 24°C 0mm 74% 0cm 78° 30°C 1.1mm 1.1kPa 24135m 5.6m/s 4.4m/s
13:30
44% 24°C 0mm 74% 0cm 69° 29°C 2.1mm 1.1kPa 9406m 5.6m/s 4.6m/s
14:30
52% 24°C 0mm 74% 0cm 56° 29°C 2.8mm 1.1kPa 24135m 5.7m/s 4.6m/s
15:30
50% 24°C 0mm 74% 0cm 43° 29°C 3mm 1.1kPa 23212m 5.8m/s 4.8m/s
16:30
47% 25°C 0mm 78% 0cm 29° 29°C 3.8mm 0.88kPa 24134m 5.9m/s 4.3m/s
17:30
45% 25°C 0mm 81% 0cm 15° 28°C 4.4mm 0.73kPa 24135m 6.1m/s 4.1m/s
18:30
45% 24°C 0mm 85% 0cm 1.2° 27°C 1.7mm 0.54kPa 3098m 5.9m/s 3.6m/s
19:30
46% 24°C 0mm 87% 0cm -13° 27°C 2.9mm 0.45kPa 24134m 4.8m/s 2.8m/s
20:30
46% 24°C 0mm 88% 0cm -26° 26°C 4mm 0.41kPa 22789m 4.7m/s 2.7m/s
21:30
44% 24°C 0mm 87% 0cm -39° 26°C 4.6mm 0.44kPa 24134m 4.5m/s 2.6m/s
22:30
43% 24°C 0mm 86% 0cm -50° 26°C 4.6mm 0.49kPa 24135m 4.4m/s 2.6m/s
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41% 24°C 0mm 86% 0cm -58° 26°C 4.6mm 0.47kPa 24134m 4m/s 2.3m/s
Tue, May 26 Sunrise 06:03 Sunset 18:37
24:30
40% 24°C 0mm 87% 0cm -60° 26°C 0.25mm 0.45kPa 23966m 4.4m/s 2.6m/s
01:30
38% 24°C 0mm 87% 0cm -56° 26°C 0.38mm 0.43kPa 24134m 5.1m/s 3.3m/s
02:30
37% 24°C 0mm 87% 0cm -46° 26°C 0.44mm 0.42kPa 24135m 5.1m/s 3.1m/s
03:30
36% 23°C 0mm 88% 0cm -35° 26°C 0.44mm 0.39kPa 24134m 4.7m/s 2.9m/s
04:30
34% 23°C 0mm 90% 0cm -22° 25°C 0.56mm 0.32kPa 23080m 5.1m/s 2.8m/s
05:30
33% 24°C 0mm 90% 0cm -8.3° 25°C 0.69mm 0.3kPa 24135m 4.5m/s 2.5m/s
06:30
30% 24°C 0mm 90% 0cm 5.6° 25°C 0mm 0.31kPa 24134m 4.2m/s 2.3m/s
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26% 24°C 0mm 88% 0cm 19° 26°C 0mm 0.41kPa 24135m 4.3m/s 2.5m/s
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23% 24°C 0mm 84% 0cm 33° 27°C 0mm 0.58kPa 24134m 3.4m/s 2m/s
09:30
23% 24°C 0mm 79% 0cm 47° 28°C 0mm 0.81kPa 24134m 3.6m/s 2.3m/s
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23% 24°C 0mm 74% 0cm 61° 29°C 0.19mm 1kPa 9733m 3.6m/s 2.9m/s
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23% 24°C 0mm 78% 0cm 73° 28°C 1.4mm 0.86kPa 7089m 4.2m/s 3.8m/s
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27% 24°C 0mm 80% 0cm 77° 28°C 1.4mm 0.76kPa 10468m 4.5m/s 4m/s
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30% 24°C 0mm 83% 0cm 69° 28°C 2.5mm 0.63kPa 7363m 4.7m/s 4.2m/s
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34% 24°C 0mm 84% 0cm 56° 27°C 3.1mm 0.56kPa 12330m 5m/s 3.9m/s
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31% 24°C 0mm 83% 0cm 43° 27°C 3.3mm 0.59kPa 24135m 4.8m/s 3.8m/s
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28% 24°C 0mm 82% 0cm 29° 27°C 3.3mm 0.66kPa 24134m 4.4m/s 3.4m/s
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25% 24°C 0mm 83% 0cm 15° 27°C 3.4mm 0.59kPa 21053m 4.8m/s 3.1m/s
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26% 24°C 0mm 85% 0cm 1.3° 27°C 0.31mm 0.53kPa 21175m 4.9m/s 3.3m/s
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26% 24°C 0mm 85% 0cm -13° 26°C 0.81mm 0.5kPa 18909m 4.9m/s 3.3m/s
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27% 24°C 0mm 85% 0cm -26° 26°C 1.4mm 0.5kPa 20237m 4.4m/s 2.9m/s
21:30
26% 24°C 0mm 86% 0cm -39° 26°C 1.8mm 0.49kPa 23259m 4.1m/s 2.7m/s
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24% 23°C 0mm 86% 0cm -50° 26°C 2.6mm 0.46kPa 10976m 3.7m/s 2.4m/s
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23% 24°C 0mm 87% 0cm -58° 26°C 3.1mm 0.45kPa 24134m 3.9m/s 2.6m/s
Wed, May 27 Sunrise 06:03 Sunset 18:37
24:30
22% 24°C 0.08mm 85% 0cm -60° 26°C 3.1mm 0.53kPa 18183m 4.3m/s 3.3m/s
01:30
20% 24°C 0.16mm 83% 0cm -55° 27°C 3.1mm 0.61kPa 12232m 4.7m/s 4.1m/s
02:30
19% 24°C 0.24mm 81% 0cm -46° 27°C 3.1mm 0.7kPa 6280m 5.1m/s 4.9m/s
03:30
19% 24°C 0.26mm 81% 0cm -35° 27°C 3.7mm 0.7kPa 12232m 5.2m/s 5m/s
04:30
19% 24°C 0.27mm 81% 0cm -22° 27°C 4.4mm 0.71kPa 18183m 5.2m/s 5.1m/s
05:30
19% 24°C 0.29mm 81% 0cm -8.3° 28°C 5mm 0.71kPa 24135m 5.3m/s 5.2m/s
06:30
19% 24°C 0.2mm 81% 0cm 5.6° 27°C 3.4mm 0.68kPa 24135m 5.1m/s 5.2m/s
07:30
18% 24°C 0.12mm 82% 0cm 19° 27°C 1.8mm 0.64kPa 24135m 5m/s 5.3m/s
08:30
18% 24°C 0.03mm 83% 0cm 33° 27°C 0.13mm 0.61kPa 24135m 4.8m/s 5.3m/s
09:30
18% 24°C 0.02mm 82% 0cm 47° 27°C 0.15mm 0.65kPa 24135m 4m/s 4.4m/s
10:30
17% 24°C 0.01mm 80% 0cm 61° 27°C 0.17mm 0.7kPa 24135m 3.2m/s 3.5m/s
11:30
17% 23°C 0mm 79% 0cm 73° 27°C 0.19mm 0.75kPa 24135m 2.4m/s 2.6m/s
12:30
19% 23°C 0.003mm 79% 0cm 77° 27°C 0.13mm 0.75kPa 24135m 2.7m/s 2.8m/s
13:30
22% 24°C 0.007mm 79% 0cm 69° 27°C 0.06mm 0.76kPa 24135m 2.9m/s 3.1m/s
14:30
24% 24°C 0.01mm 79% 0cm 56° 28°C 0mm 0.76kPa 24135m 3.1m/s 3.4m/s
15:30
22% 24°C 0.007mm 78% 0cm 43° 28°C 0.02mm 0.8kPa 24135m 3.9m/s 3.7m/s
16:30
20% 24°C 0.003mm 78% 0cm 29° 28°C 0.04mm 0.84kPa 24135m 4.6m/s 4m/s
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18% 24°C 0mm 77% 0cm 15° 28°C 0.06mm 0.88kPa 24135m 5.4m/s 4.4m/s
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