More Fog To Start The Day. A Stationary Front Keeps The Rain Chances!

Yes, much like yesterday we will see another foggy start to our autumn day! I had many reports yesterday of all the Patchy foggy mess in Lafayette. And we got more early this morning. Just be smart and drive safe. With the past few days starting out foggy I wanted to post a few quick fog safety tips to help keep everyone safe! Take a look below.

Drive with lights on low beam. High beams will only be reflected back off the fog and actually impair visibility even more.

Reduce your speed -- and watch your speedometer. Fog creates a visual illusion of slow motion when you may actually be speeding.

Listen for traffic you cannot see. Open your window a little, to hear better.
Use wipers and defrosters as necessary for maximum visibility.

Use the right edge of the road or painted road markings as a guide.
Be patient. Do not pass lines of traffic.

Do not stop on a freeway or heavily traveled road. If your car stalls or becomes disabled, turn your vehicle's lights off, and take your foot off of the brake pedal. People tend to follow tail lights when driving in fog. Move away from the vehicle to avoid injury.

Lets all follow these tips when driving in fog (IF) we have to drive in fog so we all can be our safest!

Now after the fog lifts later on today we will be tracking some Mostly cloudy skies with a chance at more scattered light showers across the WLFI viewing area. Yesterday we seen around four tenths of an inch here in Lafayette, as expected. This will be pretty much what we will look for again today. Right now I think we will keep rainfall between 0.01" and 0.15" inches still under the quarter inch mark. Maybe a few locally higher amounts possible however not much. What is the reason for all this light scattered rain? Well, we can answer that with this image below.Here is our Prog chart for today. You can see we have a low pressure system kicking up some scattered showers across the area with a stationary front taking its time moving over our area. As most of you already know a stationary front is a very slow moving front. This is why we have had slight chances for rain the past few days and also today and for Saturday. Usually when we have stationary fronts in an area we see some kind of flood watch or warning issued. Well, that is just the case in areas of southern Indiana at this time. This is south on Indy where they have seen the heavier rainfall yesterday and last night. This Flash Flood Watch will be allowed to expire by 4:00AM This morning which is good news. We had a nice little rain in the WLFI viewing area yesterday however we still could use a little more. Not flooding however! ;-)

I will check back again soon bloggers. Stay dry and stay safe! Enjoy your day.....

Oh and Becky! I'll be sure to have your outdoor party forecast coming soon! ;-)