20ish years ago I hung out in an IRC channel in which, during autumn/winter months, one person would frequently get disconnected and when he came back complained about foggy weather.
He had a laser line or sight connection. It could handle rain (with some degradation), but thick fog killed it.
Funny. A few years ago I was on #chicken, and there was a person frequently connecting and disconnecting. Turns out they were on a boat and the motion of the boat would be enough to disrupt their wifi directional antenna.
They were rigging a servomechanism to automatically aim the antenna and wanted to write the control software in Chicken Scheme (for whatever reason, never questioned because Chicken is fun).
Yeah. If you're outside during a calm day with snow falling, it's unusually quiet because large fluffy snowflakes absorb sound. Fog does something very similar to optical or radio systems. Rain has much bigger droplets and far fewer of them. :)
20ish years ago I hung out in an IRC channel in which, during autumn/winter months, one person would frequently get disconnected and when he came back complained about foggy weather.
He had a laser line or sight connection. It could handle rain (with some degradation), but thick fog killed it.