The Sacramento Valley and San Joaquin Valley — from Bakersfield to Redding — spent almost every morning since before Thanksgiving shrouded in fog and mist. That murky weather is challenging motorists’ visibility on Interstate 5 and other California highways.
Worst visibility this week was at the northern end of the Sacramento Valley — from Redding in Shasta County to Red Bluff in Tehama County — and in pockets along Interstate 80 east of Sacramento, according to the National Weather Service; but miles of mist this week made it harder to drive as far south as Kern County.
While winter often brings Tule fog and mist, this year’s holiday fog funk “never lasted this long in my 57 years here,” said Greg Clark of Redding…