Met Office issues urgent 10-hour yellow warning for fog - 'avoid travel'
Drivers are being warned of difficult driving conditions overnight and for rush-hour in the morning (Thursday) as the Met Office issue multiple yellow warnings for fog.
The autumnal weather phenomenon is blanketing vast areas of the country overnight from Belfast to Berkshire, and covering parts of Wales, Northern Ireland and England.
In all yellow warnings for the eyesight dulling weather have been issued for six regions of the UK.
Eyesight dulling weather eh? An urgent warning too. I look back fondly on those long-gone days when urgent wasn't the normal state of affairs. May as well go along with it now urgent means nothing much, although it does seem to mean "I don't want to be fobbed off" when phoning the GP.
The Met Office could push the urgent button a little harder by giving names to this new eyesight dulling phenomenon. It's probably caused by climate change so we urgently need to ban something like open fires in case pensioners don't freeze in winter.
We recently had storm Bert so why not press on urgently, begin with the first letter of the alphabet and call this one Fog Angela?
We recently had storm Bert so why not press on urgently, begin with the first letter of the alphabet and call this one Fog Angela?
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The urgent warning for fog was on our local radio this morning, but the drive to work was clear. Last week we had an urgent warning for snow, then got less than an inch.
I suppose when something actually does happen, they will have to use the red warning. Then when something happens that actually does require a warning, they will have to use the super big cheese bad red warning
Any warning that requires a "we really mean it this time" for actually worthwhile warnings is already corrupted.
Named fogs? What a great idea!
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