Manchester University (Greater Manchester) weather

Headline:

Turning wet and windy on Saturday.

This Evening and Tonight:

Remaining cloudy with outbreaks of rain and drizzle continuing overnight, turning particularly heavy across parts of Cumbria through the early hours of the morning. Remaining windy, especially along coasts and over higher ground. Feeling humid. Minimum temperature 15 °C.

Friday:

A cloudy, damp and windy start for most. Turning somewhat drier for a time in the afternoon with some brighter spells. Winds easing, but remaining warm and humid. Maximum temperature 21 °C.

Outlook for Saturday to Monday:

Remaining changeable with scattered showers, and heavy or prolonged spells of rain on Saturday. Turning cooler through Sunday as showery rain clears southeast, leaving sunny spells and showers on Monday.

It will be fairly settled to start the period but there will be spells or rain or showers in south and eastern areas, near to an area of low pressure. Elsewhere, some fog and frost patches are possible at times. It will also turn colder, as a northerly flow becomes established for a time. Later in the week, more widely drier and settled conditions could develop as high pressure becomes more influential, although probably still with some coastal showers. There may however be some thicker cloud and outbreaks of rain in the far northwest at times. Temperatures should gradually return closer to average in this period. Later there may be a return to a more changeable pattern but this is uncertain.

Confidence is very low in the weather regimes most likely to affect the UK during this period. On balance, there will likely be a transition from slow-moving weather patterns to a more changeable period at some stage although the timing on this is highly uncertain. High pressure probably close to the UK, which would offer some occasional periods of dry weather, will likely give way to a more unsettled period with some short lived dry interludes during this time. Temperatures will likely fluctuate either side of, but often close to, average.