During spring break, my friend Lizzie and I went to Newport beach, and as the sun set, fog also rolled in, covering us in a thick mist. Even though it got a little cold, it was interested to watch the light from the sun filter through the fog because it scattered the light, stretching out the sun itself. The usually small ball of light in the sky looked like it swelled to three times it size, yet the beach got darker. This probably has something to do with how the particles in the air make the light bounce off of them and scatter them, same as how a Fresnel light does, because the glass covering it isn't that clear and it comes out as a softer light. I would guess light gets scattered like this a lot in smoggy cities, giving shadows a softer shape, meaning that if a play were to take place in a smoggier city and did not want to deal with the fog machine (since it's so hard to control) then you could just use a Fresnel light to give the illusion that the air is full of little particles.
By the way sun is setting i say its between 6 and 7pm. Fun fact, did you know that 3pm is that hottest point of the day.
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