Simon's Blog - Haven't The Foggiest

Well as Monday's go this one has been particularly murky for some of us.

As forecast by the Met Office, many of us woke up to a blanket of freezing fog this morning and for some it lingered all day.

So here are a few fun fog facts.

Fog is caused by tiny water droplets hanging in the air.

The densest fog tends to crop up in industrial areas where there are plenty of pollution particles for the water droplets to cling to.

Fog is basically just a cloud that sits right on top of the ground.

You get around 0.5 ml of water per cubic metre of fog, so if you were to fill an Olympic sized swimming pool with it and then somehow condense it, you would be left with just 1.25 litres of water (that's about 2 pints in old money).

Thankfully there’s been a lot of clever camera action across the region.

Bernard Cox was out at Shoreham-by-Sea and took this lovely shot of the beach huts disappearing into the murk.

From Heather Edwards, here’s the fog from above at lunchtime on the Surrey Hills.

Nicky Vines sent in a similar view of the creeping fog at Capel-le-Ferne this morning.

Here's a very moody shot from Dominic Wilson of Larkfield lakes in Kent.

Bobby Johnson summed it up really well by saying it was “very ghostly yet beautiful” as he travelled through Sussex.

Meanwhile Peter Norman thought the pirates had seized their moment when he saw this ship off Hastings Pier!

No of course not, it was the children's pirate play ship.

Lorne Bissell asked if this is foggy or arty?

I’d say both.

That’s a Great White Egret, albeit on the grey side, today with a couple of Coots at Longham Lakes.

Of course it wasn't just fog causing problems but also a thick frost too.

Temperatures got down to -6.9 C at Beson in Oxfordshire and -5.5 C in Goudhurst in Kent.

Thanks to Bob Message in Eastbourne for the photo.

As ever it's meridianweather@itv.com if you want to email me a pic or you can always tweet me @SimonParkinITV if you're on Twitter.