mist

The fellow-traveler organizations surround the totalitarian movements with a mist of normality and respectability that fools the membership about the true character of the outside world as much as it does the outside world about the true character of the movement.

Mist, fog, low cloud and a distinct lack of sunshine seems to be the norm so far this month.

The moisture forms low cloud, mist and fog, which then cannot lift and clear as the winds are so light and the sunshine at this time of year is so weak.

He says it could be caused by fallen leaves "or sometimes you get very strange combinations of mist and rain that can end up creating a bit of an oily surface on top of the rail head and that’s extremely slippery".

The phenomenon is called a Brocken spectre, which the Met Office describes as "a large shadow of an observer cast onto cloud or mist", named after the German mountain on which it was first noted in 1780.