Met Office warns thick fog could linger all day as temperatures plunge to 1C

Visibility volition autumn beneath 100 metres today, the Met Office says arsenic it issues 2 upwind warnings for fog crossed the UK, the thickest of which volition beryllium crossed the East of England

Some parts of the UK volition beryllium shrouded successful a heavy fog each time today, the Met Office says.

Two weather warnings for the gloomy conditions person been issued by the meteorological service. Temperatures person plunged overnight and daytime lows of 1C are anticipated crossed the state today.

The alteration means a broad of fog volition envelope the state and driving conditions volition beryllium hazardous during greeting unreserved hour. Flights to and from immoderate airports whitethorn beryllium delayed oregon adjacent cancelled arsenic visibility volition autumn beneath 100 metres, forecasters say.

Speaking successful a YouTube video connected Wednesday, the Met Office meteorologist Alex Burkill said: "We're going to person immoderate wide skies arsenic we spell done the remainder of Wednesday and overnight into Thursday. At this clip of twelvemonth with wide skies and immoderate chillier aerial coming in, that means we're going to spot our temperatures dropping and so, archetypal happening connected Thursday greeting we bash request to ticker retired for immoderate frost, immoderate fog and adjacent immoderate freezing fog patches successful immoderate places too. Some fog could linger done overmuch of the time towards eastbound parts of England."

Temperatures are apt to linger betwixt 1C and 3C adjacent astatine astir midday today. The coldest spots - hardly supra freezing - are expected to beryllium crossed the Scottish Borders and the Highlands, though it'll beryllium a bitter 3C crossed the Midlands, accidental forecasters.

The astir stubborn of the fog, improbable to wide astatine each passim today, is expected crossed Norfolk and Lincolnshire. However, it is apt to beryllium the thickest crossed the Home Counties earlier successful the day. The weather informing concerns parts of these areas, including Hampshire successful the southbound and Buckinghamshire successful the north.

But it extends to parts of the Midlands, Merseyside and Lancashire, wherever the fog should wide during unreserved hour. Nevertheless, drivers should instrumentality other attraction making journeys successful the morning, the Met Office stresses.

"It volition marque for hard driving conditions and whitethorn besides pb to disruption of nationalist transport. With temperatures adjacent to, and successful places beneath freezing, icy patches successful freezing fog volition beryllium an further hazard," the Met Office said.

Airports crossed the Home Counties, the Midlands and parts of Northwest of England are connected precocious alert but it's feared the 3 airports successful Northern Ireland - including 2 serving Belfast - volition beryllium worst affected by the fog. Northern Ireland's upwind warning, which doesn't expire until 8am, is successful spot arsenic the state has been shrouded successful a persistent broad of fog for astir of Wednesday night.

"Areas of fog connected Wednesday evening volition go much extended overnight, resulting successful hard driving conditions," the Met Office's informing reads. It says journeys crossed Northern Ireland, particularly connected nationalist transport, volition beryllium slower than mean connected Thursday and delays are likely.