Up to Ten Dry Days After the Wettest Week in Two Years
High pressure is returning and the United Kingdom could see as many as ten consecutive days without rain, after an unsettled end to October in which the Environment Agency says England had its wettest week in two years. Halloween evening should stay largely dry, with some rain possible in the Western Isles.
The swing is the point: back-to-back named storms, Austen and Boelo, gave England its wettest week since 2024 and left two men dead and tens of thousands of properties without power, and within a week the pattern has reversed into a settled spell expected to run into early November with little prospect of significant rainfall. Both are the same weather system doing what the Atlantic does in autumn. For anyone still drying out, the practical consequence is that river levels and saturated ground now have time to recover; for water companies and farmers, a prolonged dry November after a very wet October is a less comfortable combination than it sounds. Two points of discipline on this story. The storms named this season are Austen and Boelo and no others, which is worth restating because this publication wrongly named a third one last week. And a ten-day dry spell is a forecast, not a measurement, offered here as the forecaster’s expectation rather than as fact.