Met Office issues urgent ten-hour yellow warning for fog - 'avoid travel'

Fog upwind warnings person been issued by the Met Office (Image: Met Office )

Drivers are being warned of hard driving conditions overnight and for rush-hour successful the greeting (Thursday) arsenic the Met Office contented aggregate yellowish warnings for fog.

The autumnal upwind phenomenon is blanketing immense areas of the state overnight from Belfast to Berkshire, and covering parts of Wales, Northern Ireland and England.

In each yellowish warnings for the eyesight dulling upwind person been issued for six regions of the UK.

Northern Ireland has an alert successful spot from 3pm contiguous (Wednesday) until 8am tomorrow.

In England, the North West, West Midlands, East Midlands, South West England and London and South East England each are covered by a informing successful unit from 4th past midnight contiguous until 10am connected Thursday. Wales has a informing successful spot for the aforesaid time.

Foggy conditions could marque driving perilous overnight (Image: Getty )

The Met Office said: "Patches of fog volition go much wide overnight, resulting successful hard driving conditions successful places into Thursday morning."

And the bureau said to expect "slower travel times with delays to autobus and bid services possible" and the "chance of delays oregon cancellations to flights".

It added: "Patches of fog volition proceed to signifier overnight becoming much wide aboriginal with the visibility successful immoderate places falling beneath 100 metres.

"With temperatures besides beneath freezing, icy patches volition beryllium an further hazard connected untreated surfaces."

Fog warnings person been issued for England, Northern Ireland and Wales (Image: Getty )

For radical driving successful fog the Met Office and National Highways counsel the pursuing precautions:

• Avoid question if possible
• Drive precise dilatory with dipped headlights, full-beam lights bespeak disconnected the fog causing a 'white wall' effect
• Keep an oculus connected your speed, fog tin springiness the illusion of moving successful dilatory motion
• Use fog lights, but retrieve to crook them disconnected erstwhile the visibility improves
• Don't bent connected the process lights of the car successful front, rear lights tin springiness a mendacious consciousness of security
• Watch retired for freezing fog which is made of h2o droplets that frost connected interaction with objects specified arsenic the pavement, road, car, etc. It tin rapidly signifier a furniture of ice.

For much accusation sojourn the Met Office proposal page.