Fog is next weather challenge for Fresno, Valley. Advisory issued for early Sunday
After a deluge of rain within the past seven days, the central San Joaquin Valley is in for some pea-soup fog.
The National Weather Service office in Hanford called a dense fog advisory lasting from 1 a.m. to 11 a.m. Sunday for the swath of the Valley roughly tracing the Highway 99 corridor between Stockton and the Grapevine.
Visibility is predicted to be 800 feet to as low as 200 feet.
The weather service wasn’t done there with warnings.
It predicts that overnight temperatures will dip as low as 29 degrees in the Valley floor from roughly Delhi to past Delano, notably excepting the Fresno-Clovis metro area. NWS advises bringing pets indoors and covering sensitive, exposed vegetation the next three mornings, until 9 a.m. Tuesday.
And the weather service warns damaging northeast winds sustained at 30-40 mph with gusts to 70 mph possible are expected along the Sierra crest from 1 p.m. Sunday to 7 a.m. Monday. Closer to popular winter destinations, the NWS predicts gusts could reach 26 mph in Yosemite Valley, 18 mph at Huntington Lake near China Peak and 21 mph
