{"id":90412,"date":"2025-05-10T15:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T15:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90412\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T15:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T15:55:10","slug":"met-office-latest-for-greater-manchester-as-parts-of-uk-set-for-thunderstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90412\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Office latest for Greater Manchester as parts of UK set for thunderstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been another glorious weekend so far<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_tempzJPG.jpg\" alt=\"There is plenty more warm weather on the way\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>There is plenty more warm weather on the way(Image: Met Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Blue skies and beaming sunshine have been covering Greater Manchester again so far this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Much of the UK has seen plenty of above-average temperatures in recent weeks, and the theme looks set to continue in our area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Sunny intervals are forecast across Greater Manchester with highs of 23C today (May 10) and 24C on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/the-met-office\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">The Met Office<\/a> is warning some Brits to expect thunderstorms in the coming days, however.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Heavy and potentially thundery showers could arrive in parts of the country on Sunday and continue on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The North West looks set to avoid the worst of the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/manchester-weather\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">weather<\/a>, as thunderstorms are forecast for the West Country, South Wales and parts of the West Midlands<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1746603553_354_consent-placeholder.svg.svg+xml\" alt=\"\" height=\"90px\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Content cannot be displayed without consent<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">However, the Met Office isn&#8217;t ruling some rainfall over Greater Manchester on Monday, with a 30 per cent chance of precipitation currently forecast for the afternoon alongside highs of 25C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Warm, sunny conditions are currently expected to continue next week, with highs of between 19C and 21C forecast in the next seven days across Greater Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Quite hit and miss&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In areas of the country where rain could fall, the Met Office is warning of &#8216;heavy, short sharp&#8217; bursts of wet weather, hail and lightning &#8211; as showers drift in from the south.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Met Office meteorologist Jonathan Vautrey said: &#8220;As is the case with thunderstorms, they\u2019re often quite hit and miss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Join the Manchester Evening News <\/strong><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">WhatsApp<\/strong><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"> group <\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/GY77Jy0SeCL8ZFZaNcWsVq\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"HERELink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Obviously it has been a pretty dry spring so for many areas rain is needed, but because of the heavy nature of these showers, splashing onto hard surfaces, there is the potential for minor localised issues and flooding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Between 20mm and 30mm of rain could fall within a couple of hours, or as much as 40mm in three hours, the Met Office says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been another glorious weekend so farThere is plenty more warm weather on the way(Image: Met Office) Blue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,2768,2769,16,1190,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-90412","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-uk-weather","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114484355276683308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90412","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=90412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}