Bristol weather: Met Office forecast ahead of Halloween trick or treating

Halloween falls on a Monday in 2022, so many will be looking to squeeze in their spooky celebrations this weekend. Whether you’re hosting a fancy dress party or taking the little ones trick or treating before October half-term ends, you’ll no doubt be hoping the weather holds up in Bristol.

Many will also be heading to pumpkin patches in and around the city to pick out their perfect gourd to carve ready for Monday (October 31). However, no pumpkin is worth trudging a wheelbarrow across a wet and sludgy field.

According to the Met Office, you’re in luck if you’re out and about in Bristol this Halloween weekend - temperatures are already well above average for late October, and will remain so into the weekend and beyond. Although forecasters are predicting a few ‘blustery showers’ in the South West this weekend, it will be mostly cloudy and dry in Bristol from Saturday into Sunday.

Temperatures will peak on Saturday afternoon, when they could rocket as high as 17C. Forecasters have also predicted ‘drier, sunnier moments’ throughout the day. Into next Monday (October 31) however, conditions are likely to become more changeable and unsettled as banded rain showers move across the country, so a cosy Halloween tucked up inside with a hot chocolate may be on the cards.

The Met Office long-range forecast reads: “Conditions remaining similar as we move into November, with showers for many, likely heavy for some. Windy at times for much of the UK throughout the period with a risk of coastal gales in the west and north.

“Starting off very mild, by day and night, but temperatures returning closer to average by the end of this period.”