Dense fog advisory issued for the Central Valley on Thanksgiving morning

The National Weather Service has issued a dense fog advisory for overmuch of California's Central Valley for the greeting of Thanksgiving, with immoderate areas farther southbound having fog arsenic aboriginal arsenic precocious Wednesday.

The advisory covers areas chiefly eastbound of Interstate 5, from Sutter County successful the northbound to Tulare County successful the south, and is successful effect from 1 a.m. to 9 a.m.

Places successful the confederate portion of the country covered by the advisory, specified arsenic parts of Merced, Madera, Fresno and Tulare counties, could spot dense fog arsenic aboriginal arsenic 11 p.m. connected Wednesday.

The NWS said patches of dense fog could bring visibility down to little than one-fourth of a mile.

Weather officials counsel drivers to dilatory down and summation the region betwixt their conveyance and the 1 successful beforehand of them, arsenic good arsenic to usage low-beam headlights.

Conditions are expected to amended by the mid to precocious morning.