Steam or smoke?

[Diabel]

It is 0*F out there with a beautiful full moon night, I can see stuff coming out of the stack...I think it is steam!

 

[SlyFerret]

If it's white or very light gray and dissipates quickly, it's probably moisture.

If it's darker, and hangs around longer, it's smoke.

-SF

 

[fossil]

What the hell are you doing out there? Rick

 

[Diabel]

What the hell are you doing out there? Rick

I had to cool down a bit!

 

[Diabel]

If it's white or very light gray and dissipates quickly, it's probably moisture.

If it's darker, and hangs around longer, it's smoke.

-SF

Thanks, it vanishes very quickly & it looks white.

 

[begreen]

Tonight's the biggest moon you are going to see in quite a while. Due to its wobbly orbit the moon is closer tonight than it has been in years. Enjoy the view.

(Pouring rain here and temp just dropped 10 degrees in the past hour. Winds are shifting to the north, uh oh.)

 

[myzamboni]

BG, we are gettting what you have later this weekend.

 

[fossil]

Sideways snow here. Temp plummeting. Rick

 

[Slow1]

What the hell are you doing out there? Rick

What? You don't check for smoke every 30 minutes like the rest of us? You mean after some point in time I may actually not look forward to first light in the morning so I can rush out in my PJ's and a jacket to make sure that there isn't smoke?

 

[SlyFerret]

The only time I look at my chimney is when I'm leaving the house to go somewhere.

-SF

 

[Diabel]

I look at mine all the time, even in the summer ....am I ever proud of myself in the summer ...."perfect" burn :lol:

 

[barnartist]

That was some moon last night. Made the trip to the wood stack enjoyable. I actually had a shadow on the snow from my stack, the moisture/smoke part that is.
It was so calm here in Ohio that I did not realize it was so cold. We got down to 10.

 

[Jimbob]

It is 0*F out there with a beautiful full moon night, I can see stuff coming out of the stack...I think it is steam!

Steam. You'll really notice it once it gets cold.

 

[Rockey]

That was a beautiful moon last night. i was outside and noticed steam coming from both chimneys last night, it was quite a sight. It was a bit difficult to see what color but it was very transluscent and dissipated about 5-10 feet from the chimney tops.

 

[bokehman]

You don't check for smoke every 30 minutes like the rest of us? You mean after some point in time I may actually not look forward to first light in the morning so I can rush out in my PJ's and a jacket to make sure that there isn't smoke?

What, you haven't got (broken link removed to http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=104962)?

 

[Diabel]

That was a beautiful moon last night. i was outside and noticed steam coming from both chimneys last night, it was quite a sight. It was a bit difficult to see what color but it was very transluscent and dissipated about 5-10 feet from the chimney tops.

That is exactly what I saw, light color steam/smoke going straight up. It's still cold here! Stove is working hard....it gets help from the furnace once in a while :down:

 

[Slow1]

You don't check for smoke every 30 minutes like the rest of us? You mean after some point in time I may actually not look forward to first light in the morning so I can rush out in my PJ's and a jacket to make sure that there isn't smoke?

What, you haven't got (broken link removed to http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=104962)?

Scary.. I've been giving serious thought to rigging something like that. I just can't seem to be able to predict when I am and am not smoking yet. I just have to check... I'm getting better at predicting, but I want to know so that my neighbors won't hate me...

 

[mtarbert]

We have an Oregon weather station that has a remote station for outside . I wish I could find a gizmo similar to put at the top of our chimney that would let me know temp and humidity of the effluent. Any Ideas?
Mike