The annual display should be at its most spectacular on Thursday night (12/13) and Friday morning, with dozens of meteors streaking across the sky each hour.
Activity should reach a peak at about 11.30pm in Britain, but experts warned that bad weather could mean the most spectacular period is only visible from the north of the country.
Robert Massey of the Royal Astronomical Society told the Telegraph: "This is a show that is well placed in that the radiant – the point where the meteors appear to come from – is high up in the sky.
"The good thing this year is that it is a new moon which means the sky is darker – to make the most of that you need to be away from the city, but in the suburbs if you look up at the sky around midnight you have a good chance of seeing something.
"The obvious caveat is that you need a dark and clear sky, and the weather forecasts seem to be fog and cloud."
