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Soft white fog rises from the calm Mississippi River at sunrise as warm golden light reflects on the water and a wooden dock sits quietly in the foreground

Fog Rising from Rivers Predicts Heat

Before thermometers were mounted outside kitchen windows and before weather alerts chimed from mobile phones, river communities relied on what they could see, hear, and feel. Along the wide curves of the Mississippi River and its countless tributaries, early risers learned to read the language of water and air. Among the most trusted signs was the sight of fog lifting

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