WEATHER WATCH

Weather lore based on today’s Feast of St Luke suggests a period of quiet, dry weather and hazy skies, but with overnight frosts. In modern times this is called an Indian Summer, but the weather is never guaranteed around one particular date.

For the past five years we have given names to storms, which serve as a better way of highlighting potential danger to life and property. Those same named storms tend to live longer in the memory.

The quiet weather this weekend is about to be replaced by something more akin to modern-day October weather. Expect heavy bouts of rain at first in the North West, with successive rainbands to follow and extending across the rest of the country in the next week.