The Dangers of Fog

You can’t drive around it, you can barely drive through it, and you’d better take it slow when you’re in it.

It’s one of the most formidable obstacles to drivers’ visibility: fog.

While it affects most of us occasionally and in short spurts, some places in North America experience it as regularly occurring weather.

These are the 5 places in North America where the fog is dense and regularly occurring, according to Farmer’s Almanac:

1) Grand Banks, Newfoundland

It’s where a cold current from the north (The Labrador) meets with the warmer Gulf Stream from the south and produces 206 days of fog a year!

2) Point Reyes, California

When it isn’t producing gale-force hurricane winds, the Pacific Ocean’s cold, moist air is colliding with the warmer inland air to help generate around 200 days of fog a year.

3) Cape Disappointment, Washington

Another victim of the Pacific’s cold air colliding with the warmer inland air masses, the aptly-named cape in the most north-western-most part of the U.S. is foggy 165 days out of the year.

4) San Francisco, California

Perhaps the most popular location on this list, San Fran’s fog exists for around 108 days a year, and the mountainous region inland helps to produce it and trap it.