BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — AND THE FOG ROLLS ON….
The top story, when it comes to weather, is definitely the return of the Tule Fog across the San Joaquin Valley. Over the weekend the fog was dense and stayed around for long periods of time. Some areas, especially just over the County line to the north were in low to almost no visibility the whole day Sunday. During the evening the fog built back in from northwest to southeast and dense fog swept through Bakersfield between 9 and 10 at night.
This current fog episode poses a “very high transportation risk” as communicated by the National Weather Service out of Hanford due to the visibilities lowering to between 200 feet and zero in the very dense fog.
MILD & SUNNY ELSEWHERE, WITH HIGH CLOUDS INCREASING
Beyond the fog, temperatures have been warm to mild and they will continue to be in these categories over the next several days. 60s, to even a few low 70s (KRV) are once again in the forecast from the mountains to the desert. Some passing high clouds will provide just about the only weather variety to an otherwise uncharacteristically quiet and unusually warm mid-January locally. It’s quite remarkable that even at night temperatures haven’t been dropping to freezing for many mountain locations, and this looks to continue…