A Met Office forecast of bad weather for the next two weeks has dampened hopes of an Indian summer this September.

In recent years the UK has often enjoyed unseasonably high temperatures in autumn, but forecasters say this year is set to be very different.

The Met Office is forecasting Staffordshire will see temperatures in the low- to mid-teens for the rest of the week, with cloudy, wet conditions.

And forecaster Dan Williams said the UK outlook would continue to be unsettled into next week.

"There's a clear north west-south east divide,” said Mr Williams.

He said: “North-western Britain is looking unsettled with showers and even gales. For the south east, we'll see some rain but in general it's going to be drier and more settled with warm sunny spells at times."

Meteorologists in the UK are blaming an area of low pressure over Scotland for the current squally weather conditions across the UK.

Heavy rain in July caused a number of Staffordshire summer events to be cancelled.

But one bonus of this year’s unpredictable weather is a bumper year for some fruit crops – warm weather in the Spring followed by a cool, damp summer means that apples, pears and plums are now plentiful in the UK’s orchards.

However, some weather experts are saying that, in parts of the UK, weather conditions and early berries on the trees mean that the month looks more like November than September.