UK weather: Brits to soak in Bank Holiday weekend WASHOUT today as heavy showers strike after -5C temperatures overnight

BRITS are set to soak in a Bank Holiday washout with heavy showers and -5C overnight.

The Met Office is also forecasting thunderstorms and frost across the long weekend.

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The national weather agency says “showery outbreaks” are expected today and then “another spell of rain will move in from the west this evening with some heavy bursts at times”.