Clydebank, Wednesday 7 October 2026
Just before 7 am the river bank was already under a flat layer of mist. The sky above it was open. A couple of points of light were still visible. On the far side, street lights showed through the bank of fog.
Further along, trees on a spit stood half in the mist and half out. A navigation light was clear of the layer, with a long reflection on the water.
Upstream, the Titan crane at Clydebank was the marker. In one frame it was sitting in the mist. A little later it stood clear of the layer, with a pink edge on the horizon and its reflection on the water.
Mist like this is what a shallow lid can hold in place. The mist stays on the river. The air above it is clear enough to see through.
What Lid said
Clydebank, 06:54, in Lid:
- 56%, Possible: a thin lid the forecast cannot quite see.
- No warmer air overhead in the model yet. With a clear sky, light wind and this hour of the night, a lid often forms too low for the forecast to draw.
- Best now, clear by 9 am.
- If one formed, Lid expected it to top out near 110 m. About 160 m above this place you would be looking down on it.
- Lid also said cloud looked likely, so it could be a cloud deck rather than a clear view from above.
- Nearest high point: Cochno Hill, 348 m, about 5.6 km to the north.
What Transparency said
Transparency at 07:00 matched the pictures. Haze clear. Smoke clear. Dust clear. Thin high cloud clear. Humidity wet, 92%. Its Lid tile showed a possible lid at 45%, strongest around 02:00, with wind and the mixing height doing most of the telling. That is a different reading from the 56% above, so the two figures differ.
Forecast against result
The forecast was unsure, and said so. The river still had the mist.
A little later it was moving. The layer had dropped onto the water and was drifting downstream, past the navigation light.
It is a forecast, not a guarantee. This morning it was close enough to walk out and see.