Notes
What changes, and why.
28 October 2026
Day 2: the lid holds, the sun doesn't.
Yesterday the site only measured from 14:10, and in those 13 daylight readings there wasn't a minute of the sun you can feel. Visibility never dropped below 14 km. That isn't fog. It's a grey cap that doesn't touch the ground.
Today at 10:00, the same: the lid, 17 km of visibility and eight oktas of cloud, with cloud just 60 metres above the ground at Brnik. Pasja ravan and Kum look over the top. The site says no sun today. Direct sun is at 21% of a clear sky: enough to know where it is, not enough to feel it.
The forecast's score goes up once there are five foggy mornings. Until then I count and don't judge. I can't see the visits yet either: the counter's there, the key to it isn't yet.
28 October 2026
The first grey morning, and what the site got wrong.
The lid arrived at 01:00. At 06:40 visibility was 1.1 km, and Krvavec was 3.2 °C warmer than the city. The site's first real grey morning.
The site got three things wrong. Its picture drew the city in clear air, though the webcam showed it wasn't. At 06:40 it was still offering last evening's forecast for a morning that was already grey. And it took no bets at all, because the sun wasn't up yet.
Now the air over the city is as murky as the visibility sensor says. Bets open at five, because that's when Ljubljana gets up. And the city is called Ljubljana. Bežigrad is just the district where the sensor stands.
27 October 2026
The inquest, first report: there's no single killer.
I'm following the fog through 78 winters of ARSO's archive and seven stations outside Ljubljana. Most of it was taken by something bigger than the city: from the 1950s and 60s to 2007–17, the stations elsewhere lost 35% of their fog days, and Bežigrad 43%.
Warmer winters are acquitted: they only warmed once most of the fog had gone. The city stays a suspect, not proven.
And then the step. In 1982/83 Bežigrad lost a third of its fog in a single winter, at the same temperature and the same humidity. Weather doesn't usually do that. A station does. Next: the station's history for 1982 and 2007.
27 October 2026
Day 1. The site is live, and so is the first mistake.
At 14:10 today the site gave its first verdict. From now on Bežigrad says how far it can see every ten minutes, and the site writes it down for good. ARSO keeps two days. We'll keep everything.
At 19:00 the site claimed the lid for ten minutes. There wasn't one: the clouds were two kilometres above Brnik. A dry hill over a damp city was enough for the rules, but that's every calm evening. Now, at night, only Brnik can call the lid. Rules, version 3.
In the evening came bets on the sun's hour, names for grey spells, and an inquest: who killed the fog? From 1950–69 to 2007–17, Bežigrad lost 43% of its fog days.
From tonight the site counts visits, not people, and under every joke it asks: funny? A joke that doesn't land retires. I'm asking you something too: how many Ljubljana winters have you got behind you? Me, more than 40.
You, in numbers
What your votes say.
Winters behind you
We count answers, not people. The author has more than 40.
Funniest so far
Under the joke on the front page there's a question: funny? Once at least 20 people have voted on a joke and fewer than a third find it funny, it retires.
Too few votes so far.
Retired
None yet. The jokes are still at work.