Whether it’s The Mist, Silent Hill or, well The Fog, fog is rarely a harbinger of good things in fictional accounts.
And people of seafaring heritage might look fearfully out to the Mersey on such days, as the fog banks roll across the the marshy middens of Hoylake and West Kirby.
Liverpool was transported back to Victorian times yesterday, or the Blitz at least (they being the two periods of recent British history we associate most with fog) as a dense, freezing, heavy mist shrouded the city.
We rounded up some Liverpool tweets to see what people in the city were seeing. Turns out, they were mainly seeing fog.
Liverpool hosts Tottenham ce soir at Anfield in the EPL … heavy fog was threatening the match earlier, see photo: twitter.com/danielblether/…
— Daniel Bach (@danielblether) February 6, 2012
Liverpool being taken over by fog… twitter.com/ridhwan10/stat…
— Ridhwan (@ridhwan10) February 6, 2012
Fog over Liverpool tonight from Radio City twitter.com/radiojonno/sta…
— Jon Stephenson (@radiojonno) February 6, 2012
@RadioCity967Radio city tower looking like a UFO in this fog! #scary twitter.com/CiaranWhelan/s…
— Ciaran Whelan (@CiaranWhelan) February 6, 2012
This fog coming from Museum of Liverpool twitter.com/huajingli/stat…
— Hua Jing Li(@huajingli) February 6, 2012
Liverpool docks currently being overtaken by flesh-eating fog, police say to close all windows and doors and tape gaps. twitter.com/Ellis_Samizdat…
— Andrew Ellis (@Ellis_Samizdat) February 6, 2012
Liverpool v Spurs goes ahead, fog is clearing apparently! twitter.com/KopKing24/stat…
— Gary Collins (@KopKing24) February 6, 2012
Top image by Radio City; all other images by their respective authors