Tule fog sticks around as we expect to see wet weather soon

KINGS COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A uncommon show Friday afternoon, arsenic a ray of sunlight peaked done the clouds successful Kings County.

But, for astir a month, the prima has been hiding down clouds and a heavy furniture of fog.

Action News caught up with meteorologist Brian Ochs astatine the National Weather Service Headquarters connected Foggy Bottom Road successful Hanford to interruption down what we've been experiencing.

"We've had a persistent signifier of conscionable fundamentally a batch of debased level moisture. It's conscionable stuck astir from the erstwhile rains backmost successful November, and we've had precocious unit implicit us, benignant of keeping a lid connected the cooler air, and the moisture goes with that. So arsenic a result, we've had a batch of fog and debased clouds," Brian explains.

Although fog is communal successful the Central Valley during wintertime months, Brian mentions seeing fog for weeks is rare, "Not this galore consecutive days, not that it hasn't happened before, it's happened successful the 1960s and the 1970s."

The heavy Tule Fog is known arsenic radiation fog, which is created by the radiation the crushed gives disconnected astatine night.

Brian says, though it's typically not a concern, radical with respiratory issues should wage attraction to the aerial quality.

"You tin get particulate matter, particulate and conscionable antithetic things, due to the fact that erstwhile you person precocious unit and fog, usually the aerial gets stagnant and doesn't determination astir much," says Brian.

Incoming rainfall could assistance wide the air, but it comes with its ain acceptable of concerns...

"We could spot immoderate accrued southerly winds. That's different happening we'll person to support an oculus on. There is immoderate interest astir trees perchance being down due to the fact that of the wind, and the grounds being beauteous bedewed too," mentions Brian.

The large question of "When volition we spot the prima again?" remains.

Especially due to the fact that a bedewed Christmas could beryllium followed by much fog.

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