New Year Morning

January 1st.

Went to bed around 1am and woke up around 5am and was unable to go back to sleep.

There was a chill in the air, which admittedly pales in comparison to the cold in temperate countries (in Birmingham, I used to go to work on mornings when it was below 0 degrees Celcius) yet keep in mind that Trinidad and Tobago has a tropical climate, so when the thermometer dips to 20 degrees Celsius, that's chilly for us!

Around 6am when I got out of bed, this was the sight that greeted me from my kitchen window:

This picture was taken in a more easterly direction where the sun is only now peeking over the horizon.

In the last picture, the 3 white dots barely visible on the right are actually the lights of the schools that can be seen in the distance. Usually I have a clear view of the schools but the fog hid them this morning.

I had to google the difference between fog and mist. I learnt that: "The answer lies in their thickness – and how far we can see through them (ie: the visibility). If we can see less than 1 km through the cloud of water droplets, it is known as fog. If we can see between 1 and 2 km, we call it mist." So, now we know...