Fog warning for Monday night covers the Midlands, East Anglia, Yorkshire and parts of Wales
A yellow Met Office warning runs from 6pm on Monday to 10am on Tuesday 10 November, with visibility expected to drop below 100 metres. It follows a morning of dense fog across much of England and Wales.
Fog is set to return on Monday evening across a broad band of central and eastern England and parts of east and north-east Wales. The Met Office issued a yellow warning at 8:45am on Monday covering 6pm on Monday to 10am on Tuesday 10 November.
It expects fog to form again during the evening and to become dense at times overnight, cutting visibility to less than 100 metres. The Met Office gives a high likelihood of moderate impacts: slower journeys, possible delays to buses and trains, and a chance of flights being delayed or cancelled. The fog should thin and clear during Tuesday morning.
Areas covered
East Midlands: Derby, Derbyshire, Leicester, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and Rutland.
East of England: Bedford, Cambridgeshire, Central Bedfordshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Luton, Norfolk, Peterborough and Suffolk.
West Midlands: Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Telford and Wrekin, Warwickshire, the West Midlands conurbation and Worcestershire.
Yorkshire and the Humber: East Riding of Yorkshire, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire and South Yorkshire.
North West England: Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, and Greater Manchester.
Wales: Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Powys and Wrexham.
Elsewhere: Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and Oxfordshire in the South East, and Gloucestershire in the South West.
Greater London, Kent and the rest of the South East, Bristol and Somerset, Merseyside, Hull, West Yorkshire, south Wales and Northern Ireland were all inside warnings on Sunday night but are not in Monday night's.
Monday morning
The warning for England and Wales that ended at 11am on Monday covered parts of every English region except the North East, along with much of Wales, and the Met Office had expected visibility of around 50 metres or less in some places. A separate warning for all six counties of Northern Ireland ran until 10am. BBC Weather reported fog disrupting travel through the morning, with patches that could linger into the afternoon in places.
Before setting off
Drivers are told to look up road conditions, give themselves longer and test their fog lights before leaving, while anyone travelling by bus, train, plane or ferry should follow updates from the operator. The Met Office also recommends keeping an eye on the local forecast, since a warning may be changed.
Under the Highway Code, headlights must be used when visibility is seriously reduced, generally meaning less than 100 metres. Fog lights can be used then too, but must be switched off once visibility improves so they do not dazzle other drivers or mask brake lights.
