Thick fog to create hazardous driving conditions into next week
Fog gets treated as the boring cousin of storms, but it's one of the strangest things we drive through. A cloud that decided to come down to street level. On Sunday, England and Wales get a thick layer of it, and then the hazard creeps northward, which means a week of headlights cutting through a gray that seems to swallow both sound and distance. What I find unsettling is how fog destroys depth perception. Your brain relies on contrast and shadows to judge how far away the car ahead is, and fog removes those cues. You end up trusting the red glow of taillights more than your own eyes.
I'd want to know whether this is radiation fog, which forms overnight when the ground cools and moisture condenses, or something being pushed in by a front. That distinction changes how long it lingers and how patchy it gets. Either way, the practical advice is the same: slow down, use low beams, leave more space. But the bigger point is that fog is a reminder of how thin our bubble of clear air really is. The atmosphere is mostly water vapor and suspended droplets, and every so often it reminds us that we're just navigating inside a weather system.