While the UK has certainly endured the full gamut of weather in recent months, news that an enormous country-wide rainstorm is set to hit much of Britain and Ireland may have been blown out of proportion.

Long-range forecasts from WXCharts have suggested that a significant rainstorm will impact almost all areas of the UK in late August.

However, the Met Office reports that high pressure will continue to bring widely fine and dry weather, albeit cooler than temperatures seen recently .

In its forecast for 22 to 31 August, it suggests that more changeable conditions will come in over the Bank Holiday weekend as frontal systems start to move in from the Atlantic.

Parts of the country could see temperatures reach 27C on Monday and Tuesday.

A northeasterly breeze means northern and eas

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