It is the middle of winter but London is not dark and foggy. Fog is very rare indeed, despite what Hollywood thinks, and the city has electric lighting so it's bright at night.
England does tend to have a lot of rain at this time of year, and occasionally some snow will fall in the south - but it's very rare to have as much as is shown in the Bridget Jones films. So London is cold and wet but definitely not dark and foggy. That is a myth.
If you want dark and foggy you will have to go hundreds of miles further north than London. If you want guaranteed winter snow too then you will have to enter Scotland.
Right now it's dark - but that's because it's night. It's certainly not foggy. I'm 10 miles out of town and I can see the top of the Shard at London Bridge.
Hollywood likes to portray London as always foggy or raining. In fact, it receives less annual rain than Rome and thick fog is as rare as hen's teeth.
It can be surprisingly dark especially on cloudy wet nights.
As for the fog. Smog (smoke fog) was a big problem in London as they used to burn coal in their millions of fireplaces. Millions probably died from it and traffic came to a standstill on really foggy nights.
Then in 1956 (I think) the "Clean Air Act" made it illegal to burn coal etc in open fires. The fogs have gone.
Google it and look at old newsreels.
London is dark at night of course. Fog is rare and it does not rain all the time either. Sorry to shatter some Hollywood myths
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