funnel cloud is the name for misty fog rolling in from ocean.
funnel cloud is the name for misty fog rolling in from ocean.
name for misty fog rolling in from ocean?
funnel cloud
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the origin of the name "smoke hole" is undocumented. some old timers used to refer to the area as the "smoke holes". the oldest explanation appears to be the story that native americans used a well-known cave in the gorge (smoke hole cave) for smoking meat; this cave has a room shaped like an inverted funnel with a hole at the apex through which smoke could escape and be seen from some distance. but it has also been suggested that a misty fog often lies along the river and ascends, thus evoking a "smoky hole", and that this is possibly the origin. a third popular story is that the fires of moonshiner's stills during prohibition days (and before) gave the gorge its name. longtime residents of the gorge have insisted that the indian "smoke house" cave story is the only genuine one and the only explanation that pre-dates the ones on the local state historical highway markers.
smoke hole canyon