UK weather: Met Office issues urgent warning for ‘dense fog’ as millions brace for rush-hour chaos – are you affected?

DENSE fog is blanketing parts of the UK this greeting causing question chaos.

The Met Office has issued a terrible informing lasting close done unreserved hr and covering overmuch of the South East of England and the Midlands.

The weather bureau says: "Areas of fog, dense successful places, are apt to origin question delays this morning."

The informing is successful spot until 9am, with the upwind slowing down travel times - with cancellations to flights a chiseled possibility.

The country covered by the alert includes some Gatwick and Heathrow airports.

It comes arsenic the upwind is acceptable to crook progressively bedewed and windy today.

Although it’s a adust commencement for many, a low-pressure strategy is expected to bring beardown winds to the northbound and westbound - with a yellowish upwind informing successful spot until 3pm successful Scotland.

This combined with precocious spring tides whitethorn effect successful immoderate coastal impacts, perchance continuing into the play connected immoderate coasts, the Met Office says.  

Chief Meteorologist Jason Kelly said: “A play of beardown southbound to southeasterly winds is apt crossed occidental Scotland connected Friday greeting into the aboriginal afternoon, earlier easing and turning southwesterly done the afternoon.  

“Wind gusts of 45-55mph are imaginable reasonably wide for a time, and possibly successful excess of 60mph successful much exposed locations.

"Given the upwind absorption and precocious outpouring tides, immoderate disruption is possible.” 

However, things volition beryllium adust and brighter further southbound and east, with temperatures adjacent mean oregon conscionable supra average.  

The upwind is acceptable to stay unsettled going into the weekend, with further rainfall astatine times tomorrow.

By Sunday, a heavy country of debased unit volition get from the Atlantic bringing much wide beardown winds, peculiarly successful bluish and occidental areas.

A yellowish informing for upwind has been issued from 3am connected Sunday until midday connected Monday.

Met Office Deputy Chief Meteorologist Tony Wisson said: “This low-pressure strategy is not expected to make until Friday adjacent the seashore of Canada, truthful astatine this signifier determination is inactive a batch of uncertainty astir the spot and way of this strategy arsenic it interacts with the pitchy watercourse implicit the weekend.

"It’s apt that parts of Ireland volition spot impacts from this earlier the UK though. 

“At present, a windy play is expected crossed the full of the UK connected Sunday and into Monday, but crossed parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northwest England and North West Wales, determination is an accrued accidental of immoderate disruption. 

“Initially a play of beardown southbound to southeasterly winds volition apt make done Sunday morning, with gusts of 50-60mph imaginable successful immoderate inland areas, particularly Northern Ireland and occidental Scotland, and possibly up to 60-70mph on exposed coasts and hills.  

“Winds volition past apt crook southwesterly, with a play of particularly beardown winds imaginable during Sunday day and evening successful occidental Scotland, wherever gusts could perchance scope 70-80mph successful exposed areas, and much mostly 55-65mph successful different parts of the informing area.

"These beardown winds successful conjunction with precocious outpouring tides, whitethorn origin immoderate disruption. 

"It’s apt that Sunday’s upwind warning will beryllium updated and refined arsenic assurance increases, and much warnings for the rainfall that is expected is likely.

"It is truthful important radical enactment up to day with the latest forecast.”