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Fog report Thu, 5/11

Fog lid at 1,600 m, sun above it.

Most sun: Säntis with 9 h 36 min. On the Swiss Plateau 28 of 36 weather stations saw not a single minute of sun.

Measured on Thursday 5 November 2020 · Source: MeteoSwiss, SwissMetNet stations

Station up to 1,600 mStation above 1,600 mFog lid, measured

Sun staircase · 05/11/2020 · measured

Sun by altitude at 62 weather stations

Each dot is a MeteoSwiss station: up, how high it lies; right, how long it measured sun on Thu, 5/11.

Stations without a minute of sun: 46

  • Chasseral1,594 m0 min
  • Napf1,404 m0 min
  • Adelboden1,321 m0 min
  • Bullet / La Frétaz1,205 m0 min
  • Chaumont1,136 m0 min
  • Hörnli1,133 m0 min

Longest in the sun

  • Säntis2,501 m9 h 36 min
  • Le Moléson1,974 m9 h 28 min
  • La Dôle1,670 m9 h 26 min
  • Pilatus2,105 m9 h 8 min

Above the fog lid: summits from 1,700 m

All measurements of Thu, 5/11

Minutes of sun per hour at 62 MeteoSwiss weather stations, sorted by height. Each cell is an hour; the dashed line is the measured fog level.

Station · hour ending891011121314151617Total
Jungfraujoch3,571 m23 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min41 min0 min8 h 4 min
Säntis2,501 m39 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min57 min9 h 36 min
Gütsch, Andermatt2,286 m0 min40 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min47 min8 h 27 min
Pilatus2,105 m33 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min57 min38 min9 h 8 min
Le Moléson1,974 m28 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min9 h 28 min
La Dôle1,670 m26 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min9 h 26 min
Chasseral1,594 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Napf1,404 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Adelboden1,321 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Bullet / La Frétaz1,205 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Chaumont1,136 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Hörnli1,133 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Plaffeien1,042 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Engelberg1,036 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Château-d'Oex1,028 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
La Chaux-de-Fonds1,017 m0 min0 min0 min10 min48 min59 min60 min39 min58 min48 min5 h 22 min
Bantiger942 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Einsiedeln911 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Uetliberg854 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Lägern845 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Oron828 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
St. Gallen776 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Frutigen756 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Langnau i.E.744 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Bière684 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Fribourg / Grangeneuve651 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Rünenberg611 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min2 min0 min0 min0 min2 min
Zürich / Fluntern604 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
no sun1–19 min20–44 min45–60 minMeasured fog levelMeasurements: MeteoSwiss, SwissMetNet

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