Temperatures will fall to -8C overnight and freezing fog will remain into next week amid a yellow weather alert as regions of the United Kingdom wake to bitter frost.
The Met Office has issued a warning covering most of England as commuters encounter below-freezing temperatures on Monday morning.
The forecaster has said that the freezing fog could become so dense that visibility could fall as low as 50 metres in some regions of England.
The typical overnight temperature for England in January is about 2C, but this will plunge as low as -8C overnight on Sunday and Monday. It in turn means the freezing fog will take longer to clear, with a warning to drivers likely to remain in place.
Conditions in northern England, Scotland and Wales, meanwhile, will stay much milder and could reach highs of up to 11C this week, significantly more elevated than the average of around freezing for January.
A spokesperson for the Met Office told a newspaper outlet that temperatures will get down to below freezing with -8C as a minimum temperature. Moving into Monday morning, the freezing fog will be slow to clear.
The spokesperson said that outside of this fog, there would be sunny skies in the morning but that it would remain cold, and that as the day developed, sunny spells will pick up from the east, turning colder, and that for northern parts and Scotland, there would be rain, particularly on slopes and hilly regions.
The spokesperson said that broadly speaking, Tuesday would remain similar with temperatures again dropping overnight but remaining above typical in northern regions.
Temperatures are generally milder to the south and colder to the north of England and Scotland, but the current weather system is bucking that trend.
This has been attributed to a shift in wind direction in the northwest.
The Met Office’s yellow weather alert for fog warns that freezing fog will lead to challenging driving conditions and could cause travel delays in some places.
It adds that travel times by car and public transportation are likely to be more prolonged, with surfaces likely to be more slippery than expected with a more significant chance of injury.
The shift will see an Arctic blast that swept across the UK over the past five days giving way to warmer air from the Atlantic but will take longer to reach southern regions.
But now we’re confronted with the majority of our society making the choice to ‘Heat or Eat’ and contained in this are people who have retired on fixed incomes together with the frail and elderly, yet our government give away billions of pounds in Foreign Aid when we can’t even protect our own citizens who have to make the decision to ‘Heat or Eat’.
However, is this even true? Well, for some it is but the majority of people still have their heating on and aren’t struggling, and if this were true. How come restaurants and bars are still heaving, particularly with their increasing prices?
And why are flights booked out till summer despite more elevated prices? And why are retail sales not dropping drastically?
People are still spending which is driving up inflation and hopefully keeping us out of a slump. When these things are really bad, all the above drop dramatically causing a mass recession, and if there are people out there freezing at home and can’t afford to switch the heating on, then make sure you set aside 15 minutes on polling day to turn up en masse at the ballot box so that we can hopefully vote out the nasty Conservative party who has crashed the economy whilst siphoning off billions of pounds to taxpayers cash to their cronies in the corporate energy sector, who in turn finance them and reward nasty Conservative MPs with 45K a pop for after dinner speeches.
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