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Met Office warns 43 areas as it issues 16-hour alert

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Met Office warns 43 areas could face flight chaos as it issues 16-hour alert The Met Office is urging Brits to give themselves the "best chance of avoiding delays". Share Article Share Article Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky Email Copy Link Link copied Add us as preferred source Comments By Alice Scarsi , Antonio Scancariello 08:52, Mon, Nov 9, 2026 Updated: 09:19, Mon, Nov 9, 2026 (file picture) A new weather warning has been issued (Image: Getty) The Met Office has issued a new weather warning for fog , set to last 16 hours and covering a large area across the Midlands, southern and northern England.

Fog patches formed during Sunday evening and overnight, and became extensive by Monday morning. The Met Office also said fog is set to redevelop this evening, with a yellow warning in place from 6pm to 10am on Tuesday, and a full forecast read: "Fog will redevelop across the area this evening, becoming dense at times overnight, with visibility reduced to less than 100 m. This will likely lead to some delays to transport and difficult travelling conditions.

Fog will thin and clear during Tuesday morning." Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT The forecaster is also warning of possible slower journey times, with delays to bus and train services possible, and a chance of delays or cancellations to flights. Get the day's biggest headlines in UK and World news and more I would like to receive emails from the Daily Express featuring our latest products, services, offers, and promotions from across the Reach Plc family .

Subscribe Invalid email You agree you are 18 or over. We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. You can unsubscribe at any time. More Info . A warning issued yesterday (Sunday, November 8) will be in place until 11am today (Monday, November 9). This is due to fog patches that formed on Sunday evening.

Fog is expected to thin later on today. Issuing the warning yesterday, the Met Office said: "Fog patches will form readily again during Sunday evening and overnight, becoming extensive by Monday morning. Some dense patches of fog are expected with visibility down to around 50 metres or less in some places. Fog will thin slowly later on Monday morning." Yesterday, the Met Office also issued a weather warning in Northern Ireland, where fog formed overnight.

The warning was in place from 10pm and is set to remain in place until 10am today. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT Niamh Murray, Met Office operational meteorologist, said current weather conditions are the “perfect recipe ” for fog. “With autumn and winter, and getting fog during this time of year, we get much longer nights, and that allows temperatures to fall away. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT Anyone over 65 urged to make heating change for winter UK households urged to buy 6 food items before Polar Vortex snow The area covered by the Met Office warning. (Image: Met Office) “We just have the perfect recipe at the moment: light winds, clear skies, long nights, to allow that fog to develop.

And particularly if we see negative numbers (temperature in degrees Celsius), it can be quite stubborn to clear the next day.” Motorists have been urged to take extra care in the low-lying cloud after a crash involving more than 30 vehicles during foggy conditions saw a motorway closed for nearly 12 hours. The M20 in Kent was shut both ways between junctions 8 and 9 near Maidstone after the pile-up on Saturday evening, which seriously injured two people.

UK areas affected by the fog warning issued for this evening (9 November) East Midlands Derby Derbyshire Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Rutland East of England Bedford Cambridgeshire Central Bedfordshire Essex Hertfordshire Luton Norfolk Peterborough Suffolk London & South East England Buckinghamshire Milton Keynes Oxfordshire North West England Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Greater Manchester South West England Gloucestershire Wales Conwy Denbighshire Flintshire Powys Wrexham West Midlands Herefordshire Shropshire Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Telford and Wrekin Warwickshire West Midlands Conurbation Worcestershire Yorkshire & Humber East Riding of Yorkshire North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North Yorkshire South Yorkshire Met Office weather warnings Share Article Share Article Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky Email Copy Link Link copied Add us as preferred source Comments

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What we found (1)

The Daily Express reports a Met Office yellow fog warning for 43 areas from 6pm Monday to 10am Tuesday, quoting the forecaster's own text and a meteorologist on why fog is forming. The headline turns the Met Office's warning of a chance of flight delays or cancellations into a warning of "flight chaos", a mild inflation the body does not support. The 16-hour duration and the count of 43 areas match the body.

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    “could face flight chaos”

    Why this matters
    The headline attributes to the Met Office a warning that 43 areas "could face flight chaos".
    The impression it gives
    A reader believes the Met Office has warned of widespread, severe disruption to flights across the warned areas.
    The context
    The body reports only that the forecaster warns of "a chance of delays or cancellations to flights", and its quoted forecast says the fog "will likely lead to some delays to transport". Nobody in the article speaks of chaos, and flights are only one of several possible disruptions it lists.

    How we know

    • Elsewhere in the article“a chance of delays or cancellations to flights”
    • Elsewhere in the article“This will likely lead to some delays to transport”

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What it gets right

  • “Fog will redevelop across the area this evening, becoming dense at times overnight, with visibility reduced to less than 100 m.”

    The Express quotes the Met Office forecast word for word, so the reader sees the actual timing and visibility figures behind the warning.

  • “The M20 in Kent was shut both ways between junctions 8 and 9 near Maidstone after the pile-up on Saturday evening, which seriously injured two people.”

    It gives the concrete place, time and human harm of the recent fog crash rather than a vague reference to danger on the roads.

  • “UK areas affected by the fog warning issued for this evening (9 November)”

    The article lists every area covered, and the list matches the 43 areas the headline counts.

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