Overview

• After four heatwaves, the Met Office says the hot spell has ended, with a cooler, mostly dry week ahead and only isolated showers in southwest England and south Wales.
• Forecasts indicate a largely fine August Bank Holiday, with temperatures lifting into the mid to high 20s in parts of England before a potential turn to more unsettled weather next week.
• The Met Office long‑range outlook highlights high pressure early in the period, then a possible deep North Atlantic low tied to Hurricane Erin bringing wetter, windier conditions late in August, especially in the north and west.
• Officials pushed back on reports of an exact date for a 400–600 mile rain band shown on commercial maps, stressing that 10‑day specifics on timing, track and intensity are unreliable.
• Hurricane Erin remains a large Atlantic system generating dangerous surf and rip currents along the US East Coast and in the Bahamas, and its eventual path relative to the jet stream will shape any UK impacts.