We’ve come to the end of 2024 at last – but plans to celebrate New Year’s Eve around Britain have been thrown into chaos by the weather. The Met Office has issued a patchwork of weather ...

and each new storm gets the next name on the list. There are no Q, U, X, Y, or Z names because of the lack of names that begin with those letters. How bad will the 2025 hurricane season be?

There seems to be no let-up in the bad weather in Spain this week, with temperatures on Thursday actually falling below that of much of the UK, which is enjoying its hottest day of 2025.