{"id":171551,"date":"2026-02-27T15:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171551\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:16:24","slug":"drivers-urged-to-use-caution-as-fog-hits-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171551\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers Urged to Use Caution as Fog Hits Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An advisory was in effect for parts of the Tampa Bay area as dense fog severely reduced visibility Friday morning, February 27, the National Weather Service (NWS) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSTampaBay\/status\/2027308815771681030\/photo\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fog was expected to affect west central and southwest Florida through 9 am, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSTampaBay\/status\/2027308815771681030\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:weather service;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">weather service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cDrive slowly and increase your distance from other vehicles,\u201d the NWS advised motorists. \u201cUse low-beam headlights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage taken by Tatiana Wright shows foggy conditions in south Tampa on Friday morning. Credit: @twright55 via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An advisory was in effect for parts of the Tampa Bay area as dense fog severely reduced visibility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[31171,2072,585,1521,135,9019,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-171551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-dense-fog","9":"tag-national-weather-service","10":"tag-south-tampa","11":"tag-southwest-florida","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-bay-area","14":"tag-tampa-headlines","15":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}