UK braces for travel chaos after Met Office issues yellow weather warning for fog
UK braces for travel chaos after Met Office issues yellow weather warning for fog
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Large part of UK from South West to Yorkshire covered by yellow warning. A blanket of fog descending over much of Britain could see flights cancelled and trains disrupted, forecasters warn. Met Office experts issued a yellow weather warning to run until late Thursday morning across southwest and central England, the Midlands and parts of Yorkshire and the Humber.
![[Fog covers the pitch during a football match between Leicester City and Queens Park Rangers at The King Power Stadium at the weekend]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/15/21/newFile.jpg)
In some areas, the fog would be dense and visibility would be below 100 metres, the forecaster said. By dawn on Thursday, some of the fog is expected to thin and lift into low cloud across parts of southern England and the southeast Midlands but is likely to persist in a corridor from southwest England through the Midlands to Lincolnshire and Yorkshire until late morning.
The forecasters warned drivers to check how to switch on fog lights and make sure they work before setting off in the morning. In Lincolnshire, a football match between Boston United and Southend United was abandoned after seven minutes because of thick fog.
The new year brought widespread disruption to many people’s lives because of storms followed by ice and snow. New Year’s Eve celebrations in Edinburgh were cancelled due to heavy rain and strong winds. Torrential rain caused flooding across parts of the UK, and a major incident was declared in Greater Manchester on New Year’s Day.
