The latest Met Office warnings include a yellow warning for rain in central and eastern areas from 07:00 on Friday until midnight.
These temperature contrasts can provide a fertile environment for new low pressure systems to develop, and if these subsequently get steered beneath a developmental area of a powerful jet stream, they can rapidly develop to create a new named storm with damaging winds.
The chances of seeing a storm increases from late summer and throughout autumn with the peak of the season arriving in our winter months, while analysis shows named storms are much less common in spring and early summer.
Across the whole of the UK, Boelo will bring wet and windy weather on Saturday with poor travelling conditions due to surface water and spray on the roads.
Disruption to travel is likely as the season's first named storm brings a swathe of powerful winds to south-west England on Friday.
Strong winds will continue on Sunday but rain will increasingly become confined to north-east Scotland with sunshine and blustery showers elsewhere.
This increase in storminess is why the storm-naming season begins in September each year.
A number of schools are closed in the impacted areas with many others opening later than usual to avoid the strongest winds.
As strong as these winds are, the most damaging winds will run to the south of the low pressure centre.