Bonfire night weather: Leave your hats and gloves at home

Bonfire Night will be unseasonably warm this year, with the Met Office telling people to leave their scarves and gloves at home. 

The weather leading up to Tuesday night’s festivities will be dry and settled, according to forecasters, and temperatures will stay above average for this time of the year.

“For anyone going to a firework display this weekend, the weather’s set to stay benign,” Tom Morgan, a meteorologist for the Met Office, said.

“It’s going to be mild for this time of year, so you won’t necessarily need hats and scarves and gloves, with temperatures expected to be probably still in the double figures for many places in the evening hours.”

Bonfire Night on 5 November, also known as Guy Fawkes Night, commemorates a failed plot to blow up parliament in 1605.

Around the UK, bonfires will be lit and effigies, or “Guys”, will be burnt as firework displays light up the skies.

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“It’s going to be dry for the vast majority of the UK, but there will also be quite gloomy conditions by day and quite murky conditions overnight,” Mr Morgan added.

“We’re not anticipating any weather warnings for the UK in the coming days, but there is a small chance of some mist and fog around, particularly next week.”

The recent flash flooding and storms that have devastated parts of Spain won’t make their way towards the UK.

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“It’s very different weather patterns affecting Iberia,” Mr Morgan said.

“It’s a slow-moving area of low pressure that’s bringing the very unsettled thundery weather with heavy rain and thunderstorms.”

High pressure over the UK acts as “a lid” on our weather, according to Mr Morgan.

“It causes the air to descend, and as that happens, there’s no upward motion in the air, so it means there’s no recipe for clouds to produce rain, and it also means the winds are going to be light.”