Flood alerts issued for Greater Manchester following thunderstorm with MORE rain forecast

Heavy showers and thunderstorms are expected to hit parts of the UK and Greater Manchester over the weekend. The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for Greater Manchester, for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

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Greater Manchester is set to feel more mild, as temperatures struggle to top 20C for the remainder of the week. A mixed bag of weather is forecast for our region, with rain predicted to fall every day expect for Sunday.

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It is set to be a warm weekend in Greater Manchester - with mostly dry weather forecast.

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It's been a scorching but rainy few days across as Greater Manchester baked in temperatures of more than 30C before being hit by thunderstorms.

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Greater Manchester has been battered by yet another storm this evening as the region was hit by torrential rain, hail, thunder and lightening - all in the space of half an hour.

A yellow warning for thunderstorms was in place across the weekend for Greater Manchester, but it was only yesterday afternoon that it made itself very known. Within minutes the hottest day of the year turned to thunder and lightning with flash flooding.