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Dense Fog Advisory Issued For Coastal Counties

News Channel 8 photo by JOHN WINTERROWD

Drivers negotiate dense fog in along the roads in Tampa Bay Sunday morning.

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By NEIL JOHNSON | The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 11, 2009

Heavy fog is draping good portions of coastal counties and has prompted the weather service to put out a dense fog advisory. It doesn't include Polk or Sumter counties.

Some of the worst areas of fog are from south of Ocala through Brooksville. There is also another patch around Arcadia and in Manatee and Sarasota counties.

Even if the advisory doesn't cover a particular county, there could easily be spots where visibility drops to a quarter mile or less.

The fog is particularly heavy along the Interstate 75 corridor north of State Road 54 in Pasco county with visibility limited to the length of car headlights in some places.

This will probably last until a couple of hours after sunrise, though the fog could ease if winds pick up.

To show the patchy nature of the fog, visibility at 7 a.m. was 10 miles at Tampa International Airport but only a half mile at MacDill Air Force Base. The Sarasota airport reported visibility of a quarter mile and visibility in Lakeland was less than a mile.

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