Brits are set to bask in 24C sunshine when thunderstorms come to an end next week.
A Met Office weather warning for thunderstorms is in force today for all of Northern Ireland, a huge area of northern and central England, almost the whole of Scotland and part of north Wales.
Heavy rain has caused flooding across the UK this weekend, shutting down rail services and trapping cars.
Another thunderstorm alert has also been issued for eastern Scotland tomorrow, with forecasters warning of more than three inches of rain in some areas.
However, conditions should improve on Tuesday and highs of 24C are expected on Wednesday.
Met Office forecaster Dan Stroud told The Mirror: "The next couple of days will be a bit of a mixed bag, with showers and the risk of thunderstorms in some parts of country.
"We are seeing a change coming down the line on Tuesday and into Wednesday.
"High pressure will kill off the showers, although there will still be some isolated ones around.
"Temperatures will also recover and by Wednesday we are looking at highs of 23 to 24C. That is slightly above average for this time of year.
"On Thursday and Friday we are looking at an area of low pressure coming in from the West.
"We will see a North West/ South East split, with the South East holding onto the drier weather for longer."
Mr Stroud added that temperatures could also rise slightly above average in the last third of August.
Becky Mitchell, a Met Office meteorologist, added: “It’s going to stay quite changeable at least for the next week but as we head towards the end of August, there’s a likelihood we’ll see hotter spell of weather and drier more settled weather across the whole of the UK.”
Despite the summer washout forecasters say it has in fact been warmer and drier than average.
Meteorologists said because long periods of heat have been interspersed with high levels of rain and flooding that people forget the good weather.
Ms Mitchell said this summer has been “warmer and drier than average”.
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She added: “It’s not been wetter on average but we’ve seen a lot of reports on the news about the flooding.
“That’s why it may feel like a bad summer, with not much warmth or sunshine.”
She explained the only exception has been the south east of England, which has been wetter than usual and has already had 111% of its average rainfall for the summer.
Ms Mitchell added the cause of the torrential rain and thunderstorms is down to the fact that July was so hot.
She said: “We’ve had quite a lot of warm weather and there was a heatwave during the middle part of July.
“The end of that heatwave triggered a lot of thunderstorms and heavy and intense rain, which is what brought some of those flooding incidents across parts of the southeast.
“There has been a lot of rainfall in a short amount of time, creating localised flooding events rather than it being a wet period.”
The dismal summer weather continued this weekend with parts of London and Glasgow flooded due to heavy rain.
Videos and photos of heavy flooding on the roads and drains full of water were posted on social media by people in Walthamstow, east London, and Battersea in south London.
