FOGGY WEATHER
The city is described as having cold, bleak, biting, and foggy weather, with dense fog obscuring everything and making the houses appear as phantoms.
CITY
It was cold, bleak, biting weather; foggy withal; and he could hear the people in the court outside go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them. ... The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that, although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms.