Yellow weather warning issued as ‘dense’ fog to hit during morning rush hour
The Met Office has issued a yellow weather wanting for fog running into tomorrow morning.
The forecaster said a “dense” patch of fog will develop on Wednesday evening and overnight.
The warning stated that in some places “visibility could be below 100m”.
The weather warning stretches from Exeter and Cardiff up to Hull, covering large parts of the Midlands including Peterborough, Birmingham and Lincoln.
The warning is in place until 11am tomorrow.
“Some of the fog will tend to thin and lift into low cloud across parts of southern England and the southeast Midlands by dawn, but is likely to persist in a corridor from southwest England through the rest of the Midlands to Lincolnshire and Yorkshire until late morning,” the warning states.
“Bus and train services, as well as flights and ferry travel may also be affected.”
A chilly start beneath clear skies for parts of Wales and northern England, with patchy fog in places too 🌫️
Milder elsewhere, but cloudier too, with widely grey skies for the southeast and the northwest ☁️
Some patchy light rain is possible in the far northwest ☔ pic.twitter.com/sh6pedz6v2
— Met Office (@metoffice) January 15, 2025
Boston United’s National League clash with Southend, the match was abandoned after just seven minutes due to heavy fog at the Jakemans Community Stadium.
Temperatures are expected to hover around 6°C in across large parts of the south and southeast of England. Further north and the Midlands, the Met Office has predicted temperatures between 1-3°C.
Northern Ireland and Scotland will see temperatures range between 5-9°C in the morning.
The warning comes after the UK suffered a severe cold snap earlier this month which saw a low in of -20°C.

Temperatures plummeted to -18°C in parts of Scotland over night last Friday to Saturday, the coldest January night in 15 years, after days of snow, ice and freezing conditions in parts of the UK.
It was the coldest January overnight temperature since 2010, when temperatures dropped below minus 15°C several times at locations across the UK, including minus 22.3°C on January 8 in Altnaharra.
The plunge in temperatures during a long cold spell which had seen multiples ice and snow warnings issued by the Met Office.
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) also issued cold weather health alerts for all of England remain in place ahead of a week of low temperatures.
Multiple airports and schools were also closed across the country as a result of the sub-zero temperatures.
Councils across London and southern England were forced to activate emergency measures including additional accommodation to help rough sleepers stay safe during the cold snap.