Clouds get in the way, unless you live here in Paradise

Today’s question:

“Kong: Skull Island,” although only a movie with imaginations running wild, was fun to watch. Are there islands, land masses, continually covered in fog, storm clouds, etc. I have done some research and have found no evidence that these extreme, constant weather conditions or phenomenon really exist, at least on planet Earth.

I don’t understand, which is not unusual.

If you have already done the research and found no evidence that there is such thing as a land that is perpetually covered with fog or clouds, why are you asking me about it?

You people are a constant mystery to me.

There are, without a doubt, some pretty darn foggy and cloudy places around the world.

Phoenix has around seven days a year that could be classified as foggy.

Compare that to Grand Banks, an island off Newfoundland where cold ocean currents from the north hit the warmer Gulf Stream. The result is an average of 206 days of fog a year.

The cloudiest place on earth is sort of up for grabs. At any given time, about 67 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered with clouds. Certain bands of the atmosphere along either side of the equator seem to be the cloudiest.

The cloudiest place in the United States is Cold Bay, a tiny town in the Aleutians. The skies there are overcast 304 days of the year. That must get sort of depressing.

We have about 70 days a year in Phoenix that could be considered mostly cloudy or overcast. We live in paradise.

What is the origin of “naked as a jaybird?”

No one knows for sure, but it may have something to do with the idea that many birds, including jays, are born with only a bit of down.