Fog and frost descended on Liverpool on Monday, November 9, prompting the Met Office to issue a yellow weather warning for parts of the city. The warning covered areas including Liverpool, Wirral, St Helens, and parts of Sefton and Knowsley. Although the warning is no longer in place, fog still remains in some locations.
Meteorologist explains fog formation
Niamh Murray, Met Office operational meteorologist, described the current conditions as the "perfect recipe" for fog. Speaking to the Press Association, she explained: "With autumn and winter and getting fog during this time of year, we get much longer nights, and that allows temperatures to fall away."
"We get a longer period of cooling and also the temperatures are much lower, so they're much closer to the temperature that we need for the air to become saturated and therefore form fog," she added. "Another thing that we need to form fog is quite light winds, not absolutely no winds."
Photographers capture foggy scenes
Murray noted that the combination of light winds, clear skies, and long nights has created ideal conditions for fog to develop, and that negative temperatures can make it "quite stubborn to clear the next day."
ECHO photographer Andy Teebay and Press Association photographer Peter Byrne captured images of the fog in Sefton Park and along the Liverpool waterfront. The gallery includes scenes of people walking through the fog, swans on the lake, and a person performing yoga in the park.
