The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for this morning. The national weather service is warning commuters over "dense" and "freezing" fog which is set to hit part of the UK this morning.
The warning is in place for Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth, Weymouth, Salisbury, Winchester, and nearby areas until 9am today. The weather warning states: "Dense fog leading to slower journey times. What should I expect? Slower journey times with delays to bus and train services possible. There is a chance of delays or cancellations to flights.
"Patches of dense, locally freezing, fog have formed across the warning area, reducing visibility to less than 100m in places. This will make for some tricky driving conditions. Fog will clear through Wednesday morning."
Anyone who is traveling in the area this morning is urged to leave earlier than planned and check their fog lights are working before they leave home.
Flights and ferrys might be affected.
The Met Office advises: "Foggy conditions can make it difficult to see the road ahead, be prepared for this by following these simple steps:
"Make sure you know where your fog light switch is before you set off. Keep a bigger distance between you and the car in front. Be prepared for a sudden bank of fog or drifting, patchy fog.
"Check your mirrors and slow down before entering fog. Use fog lights when visibility drops below 100 metres, which is roughly the length of a football pitch. Don't use full beam as fog reflects the light back. Once the fog has lifted switch off your fog lights."
Met Office long-range forecast for Sunday, March 9, to Tuesday, March 18
Likely mild at the start of this period and feeling warm in any sunny spells. However, conditions will be fairly changeable with a chance of showers or longer spells of rain across all areas, these more likely, at least at first, in the west.
How weather patterns evolve during the following week is unclear but there is an increased chance that high pressure will become more dominant for a time from the north.
This would result in a good deal of dry weather but also lead to a downturn in temperatures with a low chance of a colder spell and wintry hazards. Low confidence by the end of the period but with an increasing chance of milder but more unsettled conditions developing again.
