Humza Yousaf met the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham in Edinburgh today.
03.08.2023 - 10:15 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Forecasters have predicted a return to sunshine and warmer weather following a gruelling period of wet and unsettling.
For many this will be welcome news after Greater Manchester saw the wettest July on record. It was also an especially cool month with a mean temperature across the month of 14.9C, 0.3C below the average for the period 1991-2020.
Now, The Met Office is predicting higher chances of warmer conditions in the coming days with its latest forecast.
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The Met Office's Alex Deakin said: "There are some decent signals of something drier and brighter heading to the UK and it's all tied in to the jet streams, which is showing signs of fragmenting. It's becoming more wavy, particularly across Scandinavia, but it's also starting to shift to the north and we may well therefore be on the southern flank of the jet where we haven't been for quite some time and that's the warmer side of the jet.
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"And instead of having an angry jet barelling across the Atlantic, it is now more wavy still by Thursday and again, we're on the warmer side of it and it's also showing signs of breaking up and becoming more fragmented on a more typical summer like set up as we go through the second half of next week.
"What that means for the UK weather is that there is a much higher chance of drier and potentially warmer weather."
Humza Yousaf met the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham in Edinburgh today.
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