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The expansion of the city as driven all the farms further and further away which has kept fog levels down.

Valley fog is usually a lot more of a widespread regional phenomenon than that, and usually when I look on a satellite image of California when there is valley fog, the entire southern half (or thereabouts) of the Cental Valley is socked in, including Bakersfield and all its environs.

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