A vast blanket of dense fog has settled over California’s Central Valley, shrouding towns, highways and farmland in an eerie, lingering haze. Newly released satellite images reveal the full scale of the phenomenon, showing a sprawling, cloud-like mass stretching for hundreds of miles across one of the state’s most important agricultural and transport corridors. The formation, which has disrupted travel and raised air quality concerns, underscores the region’s vulnerability to extreme and persistent winter fog events-locally dubbed “Tule fog”-that can arrive suddenly and refuse to lift for days. As meteorologists sift through the data, the images provide a stark, overhead view of a familiar but unsettling seasonal threat that is becoming harder to ignore.
Satellite imagery…
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Author : Isabella Rossi
Publish date : 2026-01-02 20:18:00
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