Camanchaca

Camanchacas are marine stratocumulus cloud banks that form on the Chilean coast, by the Earth's driest desert, the Atacama Desert, and move inland. In Peru, a similar fog is called garúa, and in Angola cacimbo. On the side of the mountains where these cloud banks form, the camanchaca is a dense fog that does not produce rain.^[1] The moisture that makes up the cloud measure between 1 and 40 microns across, too fine to form rain droplets.^[2]