Weather and climate news

Spells of cold weather will continue over the weekend and early next week, but by the end of next week the UK will see milder and more typical autumnal weather.

England had its joint hottest summer in a series which runs from 1884, according to provisional statistics from the Met Office.

The storm names for the 2022/23 season have been announced by the Met Office, in partnership with Met Éireann and KNMI.