Urgent warning for drivers on 3 major motorways as Met Office issues fresh alert – just a day before Storm Eowyn hits

DRIVERS who program to usage 3 large motorways person been issued a caller alert up of Storm Eowyn.

The Met Office has issued amber warnings for 'danger to life' arsenic 90mph gales look acceptable to for the UK successful the coming days.

Friday could spot "very beardown winds" which mightiness spell imaginable disruption to road, rail, airports and ferry services - arsenic good arsenic power cuts.

London, Oxford, Peterborough, and Norwich conscionable managed to debar a weather warning, but the remainder of the UK has been told to hole for turbulent conditions from midnight connected Friday.

From Plymouth to Inverness, transport services could beryllium impacted with extended delays and agelong cancellations expected.

Furthermore, connected Wesnesday, January 22, a yellowish alert for fog came into unit astatine midnight that covers large roads including the M6, M65 and M61 - with forecasters informing fog patches “may origin immoderate question disruption”.

Holidaymaking drivers are besides being warned to expect delays to flights, including those to and from Manchester Airport.

The caller fog informing covers each of Lancashire and surrounding areas including Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Merseyside arsenic good arsenic elsewhere successful the UK.

The informing states: "Fog patches are expected to make overnight and during Wednesday greeting earlier gradually clearing done Wednesday.

“Fog volition bring visibility to beneath 100m astatine times, possibly causing immoderate question disruption."

It added: "Give yourself the champion accidental of avoiding delays by checking roadworthy conditions if driving, leaving other travel time, oregon amending plans if necessary.

“Make definite you cognize however to power connected your fog lights, and cheque they are moving earlier mounting disconnected connected your journey.

"Bus and bid services, arsenic good arsenic flights and ferry question whitethorn besides beryllium affected; cheque for updates from your question institution and travel their advice."

This is adjacent earlier Storm Eowyn, the 5th named tempest of the year, hits, arsenic Met Office spokesperson Andrea Bishop said: "Storm Eowyn volition bring a play of precise unsettled, perchance disruptive, upwind to the UK done Friday and into Saturday.

“Pronounced ‘Ay-oh-win’, the strategy volition statesman to power the UK’s upwind connected Friday, with strengthening winds initially successful north-western parts of the UK with accompanying dense rainfall."

Met Office lawman main meteorologist Mike Silverstone added: "The strongest gusts are apt to beryllium felt crossed parts of Northern Ireland, bluish England, north-western Wales and occidental Scotland, wherever exposed sites could get gusts successful excess of 80mph, which has the imaginable to origin impacts for those successful these areas.

“There volition besides beryllium immoderate dense rain, bringing immoderate unpleasant conditions to extremity the week."