As meteorological summer officially closes, Britain finds itself caught in the familiar turning of seasons — a final surge of warmth in the south-east giving way to Atlantic low pressure systems that bring rain, wind, and the unmistakable cool of early autumn. The shift is neither sudden nor surprising, yet it carries the quiet weight of a chapter ending: the heat that lingered through the weekend will not return in the same way. What follows is the country's gradual renegotiation with its more characteristic weather, unsettled and changeable, before a brief midweek calm offers a moment to bre