Michael Mcneil wrote:

As a small sweetener, the present series of unpleasantnesses should
stall around the 21st (or in that lunar phase.)

Of course; it may go out with a bang.

The BBC stated that this is one of the driest summers in the south of
England since 1976.

That went out with a bang. A major quake in Chile. (8.3 M IIRC.)