As the UK bank holiday weekend arrives, the long summer of heat and stillness gives way to something older and more familiar — rain sweeping in from the west, thunderstorms gathering over the hills of Scotland and Wales, and a coolness in the air that reminds the land what late August is supposed to feel like. Twenty million journeys are planned into this unsettled sky, a quiet testament to the human habit of pressing on regardless of what the weather intends. The shift is not merely meteorological; it marks the closing chapter of an exceptional summer, with early September offering little pro