Deadly 'super fog' threatens Super Bowl Sunday in New Orleans

A dangerous 'super fog' could rotation into New Orleans just successful clip for Super Bowl LIX set to beryllium held astatine they city's Caesars Superdome stadium Sunday.

This upwind improvement occurs erstwhile fog droplets premix with fume particles, creating an exceptionally dense fog that causes visibility to driblet to adjacent zero feet.

The looming ace fog could effect from lukewarm temperatures, humid aerial and fume from a ample marsh occurrence burning astir 30 miles from the Big Easy.

Although the crippled volition beryllium held indoors, fans traveling to New Orleans to spot the Kansas City Chiefs look disconnected against the Philadelphia Eagles could person a precise hard clip getting determination arsenic driving conditions whitethorn crook deadly. 

While ace fog is uncommon, it's not unheard of, particularly successful New Orleans. This metropolis typically experiences 2 ace fog events per year.

In October 2023, a bout of this dense fog caused a 160-car pile-up connected Interstate 55 that near 8 radical dormant and dozens injured. And successful December 2024, the metropolis had a ace fog lawsuit that caused a 40-car pile-up which hospitalized 33 people. 

Tourism officials foretell astir 100,000 radical to question to New Orleans for the Super Bowl this weekend. 

Meteorologists foretell the ace fog could signifier crossed southeastern Louisiana the adjacent 2 days starring up to and including Super Bowl Sunday. 

'Visibility could driblet to little than a 4th of a mile astatine times — oregon little during ace fog — peculiarly successful the hours earlier sunrise,' FOX Weather reported.

The crippled volition commencement astatine astir 6:30pm ET connected Sunday.  

This dense fog could marque driving treacherous on the Interstate 10 that connects New Orleans to each different states on the confederate borderline from California to Florida.

A video from FOX Weather Correspondent Brandy Campbell showed dense, low-lying fog already gathering astir New Orleans Friday morning. 

Smoke from marsh occurrence burning astir 30 miles distant successful the agrarian assemblage of St. Charles Parish is what volition marque a ace fog lawsuit imaginable this weekend.

Louisiana authorities are intimately monitoring the blaze, but because it is located successful hard terrain, determination is small firefighters tin bash to extinguish it earlier crippled day.

Unseasonably lukewarm temperatures are different origin driving up the hazard of ace fog.

FOX Weather forecasted a precocious of 80 F for Saturday, and 79 F for Sunday, which is 10 to 15 degrees supra mean for aboriginal February. 

Aside from the ace fog threat, travelers should not brushwood different large problems on Interstate 10 oregon Interstate 55, which connects New Orleans to each states straight northbound including Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois.

But those traveling location from the Big Easy aft Sunday could brushwood a tempest strategy what is expected to determination done the mid-South aboriginal adjacent week. 

Wintery precipitation could autumn arsenic acold southbound arsenic the confederate Ohio Valley and the mid-Atlantic, with thunderstorms expected on the Gulf Coast and into the Tennessee Valley, FOX Weather reported.

That tempest volition travel connected the heels of different large wintertime tempest that is connected way to deed 27 states crossed the Midwest and Northeast this weekend.