Sea smoke, also known as steam fog, is produced when cool air passes over warmer water. This can often result in hoar frost or freezing fog.
A hurricane will weaken if it moves over cold water.
Clouds
Steam fog, also known as sea smoke, forms when cold air moves over warmer water, causing the water to evaporate rapidly and create a foggy layer above the surface.
As a hurricane moves over cold water, it loses its main source of energy which is the warm ocean water. This causes the storm to weaken and eventually dissipate as it lacks the warm water needed to maintain its strength and intensity.
When warm, moist air moves over a cold surface, it creates advection fog. This occurs as the warm air cools down upon contact with the cold surface, leading to condensation of water vapor and formation of fog. The result is a thick, low-lying fog that can significantly reduce visibility. Advection fog commonly forms over bodies of water or in coastal areas.
Cold and Humid
A tornado that forms on a lake or sea is called a waterspout.
An air mass that forms over water at a high latitude is most likely cold and humid. It would be cold because the higher the latitude the colder the air.
A Maritime Polar air mass forms over the cold waters of the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans in the mid-latitudes. It acquires its characteristics of cool and moist air as it moves over these bodies of water.
Advection fog may result when warm moist air moves over a cold surface. This type of fog forms when the moist air cools down to its dew point temperature, causing water vapor to condense into tiny water droplets that remain suspended in the air.
A warm front forms when a warm air mass moves over a cold air mass. As the warm air rises over the denser cold air, it cools and condenses, leading to the development of clouds and precipitation. Warm fronts usually bring steady, light to moderate precipitation and result in gradual weather changes.
An air mass that forms over water at high latitude is most likely cold. The air mass over the water would also be quite humid.