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UK weather: Britain braced for another heatwave as temperatures in Greater Manchester set to hit 29C
08.08.2022 - 10:41 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Britain is braced for another heatwave that will last longer than July's record-breaking hot spell. And while temperatures won't reach last month's scorching 43C, Greater Manchester will still be hotter than the Algarve.
The mercury is set to rise steadily throughout the week from around 24C today (Monday) to pushing towards 30C by the end of next week. That means it will be hotter here than the Algarve in Portugal for example, where temperatures are expected to peak at between 26C and 27C.
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The whole of England and Wales is likely to see warm weather continue over the coming week as high pressure builds across the UK. Met Office meteorologist Tom Morgan said: "It will be a lot of sunshine for a vast majority of the UK and also temperatures rising day after day.
"Not everyone will initially see those sunny conditions, but towards the end of the week even Scotland and Northern Ireland will join the rest of the UK in having generally fine, sunny and very warm if not hot conditions. It does look like a prolonged period of dry weather and obviously that’s bad news for southern England where some rain would really be useful now.
"In terms of temperatures we’re looking at them build from 28C or 29C tomorrow to the low to mid 30s from Thursday onwards, so a fairly widespread heatwave developing across the UK this week. The peak of the temperatures look likely to occur on Friday or Saturday."
Mr Morgan said the West Midlands and West Country could see the highest temperatures, with a maximum of around 35C predicted, but added this was still uncertain. He added: "The heatwave we saw at the end of July, that was relatively short-lived and saw exceptionally high, record-breakingly high temperatures.
"We're quite
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