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    What is haar?

    Haar: the North Sea sending its regards, damply.

    A cold sea fog that rolls in off the North Sea onto the east coast of Scotland and north east England.

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    Scottish

    “Sunny in the hills, haar in Edinburgh.”

    More about haar

    Haar forms when warm air moves over the cold North Sea and cools until it fogs, most often in spring and summer. It can keep the coast grey and chilly while a few miles inland is sunny.

    What I think of haar

    • Haar: the North Sea sending its regards, damply.
    • Haar is fog with a grudge against summer.
    • Haar: sunny ten miles inland, which does not help you at all.

    Words people compare it with

    • Fog vs mist: Both are cloud at ground level. The difference is how far you can see.
    • Dreich: Scots for dreary, grey, damp and miserable weather.
    • Smirr: Scots for very fine, misty rain, the kind that drifts rather than falls.
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