Another chance for spotting the Aurora this week and skies will be clear for much of the UK on Thursday night. It will be cold though and frosty
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There will be the risk of frost by night this weekend. Showers will spread over northern areas on Saturday with sunshine in the south. Sunday starts more settled and calm.
Tropical hurricane Milton closes in on Florida for Wednesday night. Ex-hurricane Kirk (now an extratropical low) drenches France leaving a cold northerly wind behind for the UK.
Yellow warning of rain affecting Yorkshire & Humber: East Riding of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, York valid from 0728 Wed 09 Oct to 1400 Wed 09 Oct
Yellow warning of thunderstorm affecting Wales: Monmouthshire, Newport, Torfaen valid from 0900 Tue 08 Oct to 0200 Wed 09 Oct
Yellow warning of rain affecting Northern Ireland: County Armagh, County Down valid from 1150 Tue 08 Oct to 1600 Tue 08 Oct
Yellow warning of thunderstorm affecting East Midlands: Northamptonshire valid from 1500 Mon 07 Oct to 2259 Mon 07 Oct
Ex-Hurricane Kirk will impact NW Iberia and France before heading through more of Europe. It misses the UK but our mild showery weather will see an autumn chill as the winds change to the North.
Hurricane Kirk, currently a major cat.4 hurricane, looks to track northeast to arrive across NW Europe as a deep ex-tropical low mid-week. But how common are ex-hurricanes in the UK?
A mixed weekend with a sunny start on Saturday before rain creeps in from the west. The southerly winds bring milder air and it will feel pleasant for early October, in sheltered sunshine.
A return to unsettled conditions this weekend after a dry, settled end to this week. Increasingly windy with rain or showers next week and we may see deep low, ex-Hurricane Kirk, take aim at southern UK later next week.
The devastation of Hurricane Helene is still being discovered with communities cut off. The Atlantic hurricane season continues with Kirk staying out at sea but forecast to turn towards NW Europe.