Summer's over for another year, say weather experts

Temperatures on Sunday reached 30.3C in London, making it the hottest day the UK has seen this year.

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But temperatures have taken a decisive tumble and are expected to struggle to stay in the low twenties for the remainder of the week.

"It's quite possible this could have been the hottest temperature we get this year," said Tony Conlan, a meteorologist at MeteoGroup UK.

"There's no sign of a heat wave for the next few weeks."

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The rest of the week across the country is expected to be changeable, cool and with a fair bit of cloud.

But Mr Conlan stressed that the low rainfall predicted over the next weeks was a positive.

"It will be good for getting out and about because for the rest of the week it will be predominantly dry," he said.

However, today's temperatures, which are due to peak in the south and east of England at around 23C, could be the warmest for the week.

Tomorrow is due to be the coolest day this week with temperatures in the north dipping particularly low.

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It will seem particularly cool in Scotland where temperatures are expected to be around 16C, compared to 18C in the Midlands and 21C in the south.

Scotland did not benefit greatly from the balmy weekend weather as heavy rain hit the country.

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival was deluged with torrential downpours and organisers, who expected a crowd of more than 175,000 people, said that only 50,000 turned out.

In contrast, revellers at the Big Chill Festival in Eastnor, Gloucester, were able to ditch the obligatory festival wellies in favour of flip flops.

This July has been the wettest across the UK as a whole since records began in 1766, and this summer so far has been the wettest averaged across England and Wales since 1839.

Recent summers have been exceptionally hot, with temperatures regularly exceeding the 30C mark.

The hottest temperature last year was 36.5C, recorded on July 19 in Surrey.