PRESS ASSOCIATION -- The soggy bank holiday weather is set to continue with more downpours expected to drench holidaymakers and festival-goers up and down the country.
Showers swept across much of the country on Saturday, turning Reading and Leeds festivals into mud baths and scuppering the plans of those hoping to spend the long weekend on the beach.
Campers at Reading Festival complained of waterlogged tents and organisers laid hay on the ground in an attempt to prevent the site becoming a swamp.
But revellers at both festivals donned plastic ponchos and wellies and refused to let the grey skies and rain clouds ruin the party.
Their steel may be tested however, with forecasters predicting yet more scattered showers and cool temperatures.
Weather expert Billy Payne, from MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association, said: "For most parts it will still be a case of scattered showers mixed with sunny spells. The only part of the country that will will be different will be northern and eastern Scotland where it will be very wet and windy with persistent rain and gale-force gusts."
Temperatures are not expected to top 19C - lower than the average for this time of year.
On Saturday heavy rain fell in the Midlands, the South East, South West, London and central England, while motorists embarking on long weekend getaways were hit by tailbacks on the M20, M5, M6, M42 and M40.
The Highways Agency reported large volumes of traffic on the roads as well as a number of accidents
Channel Tunnel shuttle train company Eurotunnel said it planned to run a full service over the weekend despite the threatened strike by its French workers.