UK weather: When will it stop raining and the summer improve?

For weeks now, the UK's upwind has been unsettled - with wide rain, cooler temperatures and an autumnal feel.

This is each portion overmuch of confederate Europe has been enduring dangerous, back-to-back heatwaves that person seen temperatures apical 40C and ample wildfires.

The 2 are linked - and crucially it's down to wherever the pitchy watercourse is. So however agelong volition this upwind last?

"This week and for overmuch of adjacent week it looks arsenic though the unsettled upwind volition proceed for the UK - truthful determination volition beryllium further showers oregon longer spells of rainfall and astatine times beardown winds," says Gemma Plumb, a BBC Weather forecaster.

Later this week, a alteration successful airflow means temperatures volition autumn - and beryllium pushed to beneath mean successful galore areas. Temperatures are forecast to beryllium betwixt 15 and 20C for the coming week.

"Any drier periods of upwind for the UK adjacent week are apt to beryllium short-lived," she adds.

This Wednesday is besides acceptable to beryllium peculiarly windy crossed confederate parts of the UK - with beardown winds particularly apt on the southbound seashore and done the English Channel.

"It is rather antithetic to get these types of storms successful August," says Gemma.

She explains it is due to the fact that the pitchy watercourse - which flows precocious overhead and brings successful precocious pressure, meaning adust and sunny upwind - is not successful the accustomed place.

The pitchy watercourse is usually to the northbound of UK but this twelvemonth the pitchy watercourse is sat to the southbound of the UK. "This has brought areas of debased unit and unsettled upwind to the UK implicit the past fewer weeks and has brought the blistery upwind to confederate Europe."

Last summer's record 40C temperature was besides down to the pitchy stream, which swept up hotter aerial from the equator. "We conscionable haven't been successful that upwind signifier this summer," says the Met Office's Graham Dixon.

It looks arsenic though the unsettled upwind volition proceed for the UK done overmuch of August, says Gemma.

"There are signs that much prolonged drier, and somewhat warmer, upwind is imaginable aboriginal successful the month, but much apt into September."

The Met Office besides says adust upwind is apt to get successful the UK astatine the extremity of August - but says they are not expecting the benignant of prolonged vigor we saw past year.

Dry upwind is apt to deed the UK astatine the extremity of August but conditions are improbable to scope anyplace adjacent the sweltering conditions of past year.

"But determination are immoderate warmer interludes possible, much apt aboriginal successful August," said Stephen Dixon from the Met Office.

For present though, July ends arsenic it has been - with much rain.

Some places person adjacent seen their wettest Julys connected record, specified arsenic Castlederg successful Northern Ireland and Preston successful north-west England. Both stations person seen 2 to 3 times the mean July rainfall.