{"id":644607,"date":"2025-12-20T17:20:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644607\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:20:36","slug":"greater-manchester-weather-as-last-weekend-before-christmas-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644607\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Manchester weather as last weekend before Christmas arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather is looking alright for this time of year<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766251236_727_0_MWdec25-100146JPG.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Markets in Manchester City centre Albert Square\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The final weekend before Christmas has arrived(Image: Mark Waugh Manchester Press Photography Ltd)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It&#8217;s the last weekend before Christmas and it&#8217;s set to be a busy one with last minute shopping and many people getting merry. Luckily, the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/manchester-weather\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">weather<\/a> outlook is looking alright for this time of year, although there may be some rain at points, dampening the festive mood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Saturday will see sunny intervals with a low chance of rain and highs of 9C. The temperature will drop to 7C in the evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Sunday will be cloudy with temperatures rising to 10C by the afternoon. There is a high chance of rain through the evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The outlook for Greater Manchester next week is generally cloudy with highs of 10C and a low of 4C on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/christmas\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Christmas<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Across the North West, Saturday will see prolonged sunny periods which may turn somewhat cloudier through the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Sunday will be mostly cloudy and dull across the region with some spots of rain and drizzle at times. Winds are generally light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">According to the Met Office, the outlook for the start of next week is &#8220;Often cloudy and dull through this period with some rain and drizzle possible at first.&#8221; They added: &#8220;Gradually turning colder and possibly brighter with an easterly breeze developing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The weather is looking alright for this time of yearThe final weekend before Christmas has arrived(Image: Mark Waugh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,2768,2769,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-644607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-manchester-weather","13":"tag-the-met-office","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115753046939870074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}