After the rain yesterday, skies cleared off and temperatures cooled creating dense fog this morning. The National Weather Service has much of the state under a Dense Fog Advisory this morning. The featured map displays the yearly average number of Dense Fog Advisories issued by forecast zone. The lines on the map are the edges of NWS forecast office zones. For Iowa, most of the state is in the 7-10 advisories per year range. The highest frequencies are near the Gulf of Mexico as the warm and humid air comes onshore and cools, creating fog. There is an interesting white patch over West Virginia. This is the Charleston, WV forecast office, which according to IEM databases has not issued a Dense Fog Advisory since at least 1 Jan 2006.

Voting:
Good = 28
Bad = 12
Abstain = 9

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