All of London’s Royal Parks will be closed on Saturday, including the Winter Wonderland attraction in Hyde Park.
Horse races planned this afternoon at Aintree in Merseyside and Chepstow in south Wales have been abandoned due to the weather.
A Premier League match between Everton and Liverpool, scheduled at Merseyside’s Goodison Park, has also been postponed. It is the first top-flight derby to be cancelled because of the storm.
In Northern Ireland, where there is an amber weather warning until 21:00 GMT, multiple Christmas events have been cancelled this weekend.
Belfast City Council said its Christmas market would be closed on Saturday, while the Enchanted Winter Garden events at Antrim Castle Gardens had been cancelled for Friday and Saturday.
Storm Darragh is also expected to bring heavy rain over the weekend, with 120 flood alerts – meaning flooding is possible – in England.
There are 55 flood alerts in Wales, which was badly affected by flooding during Storm Bert and where the ground is still very saturated.
Amber weather warnings in Northern Ireland, Wales and western England are in place until Saturday morning, while other parts of the UK have lower-level yellow weather warnings.
Storm Darragh is the fourth named storm of the season following Bert and Conall which caused severe flooding last month.
