Mysterious fog 'with chemical smell' blankets southern state where locals report sickness after exposure

Florida residents person reported a mysterious fog with a 'chemical' odor sweeping crossed parts of the state once again.

The National Weather Service (NWS) shows a dense fog alert adjacent Jacksonville and Tallahassee for Tuesday until Wednesday.

While fog is simply a communal occurrence successful the area, Floridians said what they spot extracurricular is unnatural. 

'I unrecorded successful Lake County, it's truthful thick. It's not earthy fog,' 1 nonmigratory shared online.

Another section said the fog looked much similar smoke, but nary fires person been reported successful the area.

'We person had weird fog present successful Florida the past fewer weeks. I saw fog successful the mediate of the time going implicit the Bayside Bridge,' different Floridian shared.

'There was fog connected 1 broadside but not the different it was truly weird. Not definite what's going on.'

Many locals person besides reported symptoms associated with vulnerability to the fog, including coughing, sore throat, congestion, oculus irritation, lethargy, nonaccomplishment of appetite and gut issues.

It comes conscionable weeks aft different heavy fog antecedently rolled into the country past period that locals besides said had a odor of metal.

A Florida nonmigratory told DailyMail.com past period that she stopped astatine a state presumption for astir 10 minutes and began feeling ill.

'Within astir and hour, I kept sneezing implicit and implicit for astir 3 hours, and my eyes were truly puffy,' she said.

'I got precise lukewarm and I felt similar I had a fever, and my tummy was cramping.' 

The mysterious fog was archetypal reported successful the US successful December erstwhile radical each implicit the state claimed heavy fog with a chemic odor had blanketed their town.

While reports appeared to diminish successful the past month, Floridians are again exposed to what they judge is making them sick.

'I’ve had a fog wherever I’m astatine successful Florida,' 1 section shared connected X.

'It’s been truly weird watching it. I started feeling ace bushed and foggy successful my brain, but my neighbors person been ace sick. [They had some] coughing a week agone and present her hubby has influenza A.'

They person besides shared images of a dense, grey fog hanging debased implicit their communities, and galore importune that it is immoderate benignant of biologic or chemical weapon. 

On Monday, 1 X idiosyncratic shared images of the fog and skies filled with streaks of achromatic vapor, writing: 'More grounds cardinal Florida 2nd week successful February astir obnoxious fog and chemic spraying you’ve ever seen. I bash not consent to this.'

'It is simply a blatant poisoning with dense metallic toxins being sprayed successful the entity that autumn to the Earth and poison your nutrient and water,' they added. 

Floridians person taken to the societal media tract to explicit their outrage with authorities and section officials for not acknowledging the fog, which they spot arsenic a nonstop onslaught connected nationalist health.

'Governor DeSantis, you person a superior occupation with the chemic trails,' One X idiosyncratic posted Tuesday.

'They're putting retired a fog that's showing a precise deadly microorganism successful it and these upwind manipulations causing these floods and storms are man-made. Please enactment authorities retired to halt that.'

'Well I measurement extracurricular my doorway and much chemic fog that tastes similar metal,' different X idiosyncratic posted. 

'And present I thought my Governor cared capable astir his constituents to get this crap retired of our f****** skies I conjecture a suit mightiness beryllium successful bid beauteous soon due to the fact that this is unhealthy.'

In January, reports of the mysterious fog sparked fears of different 'Operation Sea Spray.'

For 1 week successful September of 1950, the US Navy sprayed monolithic amounts of bacteria into the aerial 2 miles disconnected the seashore of San Francisco, California.

The purpose of this concealed biological warfare experiment was to larn however susceptible ample US cities similar San Francisco would beryllium to a biowarfare onslaught by terrorists.

The bacteria utilized were Serratia marcescens, which tin origin respiratory issues and meningitis, and Bacillus atrophaeus that tin beryllium lethal immunocompromised individuals. At the time, the Navy believed these bacteria were harmless to humans.

But aft inhaling thousands of bacterial spores, 11 radical checked into Stanford Hospital adjacent San Francisco with precise rare, superior urinary tract infections that doctors yet determined were caused by the experiment. 

Many person speculated that the 'unnatural' fog plaguing their states could beryllium portion of a akin experiment.  

But speech from the reports, experts person stated that determination is nary grounds to suggest that this 'sickness-causing' fog is thing but a co-occurrence of a earthy upwind lawsuit and the viruses that are particularly communal this clip of year. 

The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued dense fog advisories disconnected the seashore of seashore of Florida from Keaton Beach to Ochlockonee River, from Suwannee River to Keaton Beach, and from Fernandina Beach to St. Augustine.

In these areas, dense fog volition trim visibility to 1 nautical mile oregon less, according to the NWS. These advisories volition stay successful effect until 10am Wednesday.

Dense fog is mean for Florida this clip of year. In fact, it's truthful communal that experts notation to the months betwixt precocious autumn to aboriginal outpouring arsenic 'fog season' successful this state.   

What's more, the 'chemical' odor associated with this caller fog is apt not coming from the fog itself, but alternatively from pollutants that were already contiguous successful the aerial erstwhile the fog formed. 

Smells go much potent successful humid aerial due to the fact that the h2o droplets trap the odor-causing molecules and let them to linger for longer and stay concentrated, which could explicate wherefore truthful galore radical are reporting the fog's unusual odor. 

The wellness effects radical person been experiencing tin besides beryllium explained by wintertime viruses. And being exposed to fog tin marque definite symptoms consciousness worse. 

Multiple studies person shown that fog tin origin respiratory issues specified arsenic coughing, shortness of breath, thorax pain, congestion and wheezing, particularly successful radical with asthma.

That's due to the fact that our lungs are designed to inhale oxygen, not water. When we inhale the accrued moisture contented of the air, it tin irritate the respiratory strategy and trigger uncomfortable symptoms.

Fog tin beryllium particularly irritating erstwhile it is mixed with airborne pollutants, allergens oregon different particles.