Blog: The future of fog
Fog is central to life in California. … But climate change is going to disrupt this quintessentially Californian weather experience. We asked Todd Dawson, a scientist who has long studied the relationship between fog and redwoods, to divine the future of fog for us. Why does fog occur in California, and why is it so important to the state’s ecosystems? … Fog also provides an enormous, critical water subsidy that sustains many coastal systems. Our coastal fog has a high water content, so when it strikes surfaces such as redwoods and grasses, it drips into the ecosystem. It represents anywhere from 30–40% of all the water coastal redwoods get each year.