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Greater Manchester will see a mixed weekend weather-wise - with sunshine and showers predicted. According to the Met Office, it will remain mostly dry today (Saturday) after a chilly start.
It will stay cloudy with some sunny outbreaks and light winds. Temperatures will reach a pleasant 13C by the afternoon.
It will remain mild with some outbreaks of rain, forecasters say. Moving into Sunday, some drizzle and showers are expected. It will feel a bit cooler, forecasters predict, with temperatures expected to top 11C.
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It will be much the same into Monday, with outbreaks of rain. Things look likely to dry up into the week.
Met Office meteorologist Aiden McGivern said: "As high pressure finally arrives from the west, bringing settled and more cloud free weather for the vast majority, but not everyone.
"There will be some cloud across northern Scotland, Eastern England also affected by patchy cloud coming in from the North Sea and continued cool breeze.
"And after the sunny, but chilly start, for many of us the cloud will tend to build, more especially for parts of Wales into northern and central England and for northern Scotland. The cloud increasingly thick and low to bring some light outbreaks of rain by the afternoon."
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A mix of showers and sunshine are forecast in Greater Manchester today.