Bank holiday weekend to bring thunderstorms, rain across UK

As the UK bank holiday weekend arrives, the long summer of heat and stillness gives way to something older and more familiar — rain sweeping in from the west, thunderstorms gathering over the hills of Scotland and Wales, and a coolness in the air that reminds the land what late August is supposed to feel like. Twenty million journeys are planned into this unsettled sky, a quiet testament to the human habit of pressing on regardless of what the weather intends. The shift is not merely meteorological; it marks the closing chapter of an exceptional summer, with early September offering little pro