Winter Has Arrived In The Central Valley

It is officially the winter season here, now. Yesterday we had rain up past my bedtime. When I woke up in the morning to go to work, there was dense fog outside.

Those of you that have never been to the Central Valley of California in the winter, have no concept of the phrase "tule fog". The visibility in this fog is usually less than an 1/8 of a mile, about 600 feet. But it could be as low as 10 feet.

This picture really doesn't do the term justice.

Today, the visiblity when I left for work was about 50 feet. Slowly, throughout the day, the visibility rose to 'just fog' levels (about 1/4 mile) by 1130. Around noon, the sun was out in areas of the valley for a short time, before the temps caused the fog to reform after 1300. In some areas, today, the sun never came out at all.

This is winter in the Central Valley. And some of you thought that we had sun and good weather all year long! HA!