Manchester will continue to have a nice and warm sun throughout today while temperatures remain at a relatively high level.
While skies won't be as clear yesterday with plenty of clouds covering up the sky, there will still be plenty of sunny intervals to light up the sky. Similarly, the temperature will also remain high today, peaking at 18C in the mid-afternoon.
In the morning, temperatures will start off quite low at 8C and will steadily increase as we get closer to the afternoon, shooting to 10C by 8am and rising by 1-2C every hour until the mid-afternoon. By 12pm, the sun will be out in full force with few to no clouds covering it up while temperatures rise to 15C.
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The early to mid-afternoon will see a continuation in rising temperatures, peaking at 3pm at 18C before it begins to get slightly cooler as we move into the evening. By 7pm, temperatures will dip to 15C and only get slightly lower by 11pm at 13C, leaving us with a very warm night.
"Any early mist and fog patches will quickly clear to leave another fine day with plenty of sunshine, the Met Office said. "It will become a little cloudier in the afternoon, particularly in the north, but it should remain dry and feeling pleasantly warm. Maximum temperature 18 °C."
It comes after an expert predicted a heatwave will soon strike the UK in April, leading to temperatures close to 30C. Jim Dale, senior meteorologist at British Weather Services, said: "I think hot weather could come in fairly early as far as April is concerned perhaps. I know March is the start of Spring but I think we’re probably going to get properly into April before we start to see the searing sort of temperatures."
He added: "I wouldn’t be surprised to see 26C, 27C, 28C in the middle of April. Longer-term, given what’s happening globally in terms of the temperature profiles in the southern hemisphere and what’s also happening in the United States, I would not be surprised if we started to see some big highlights - in whichever direction it goes, either cold or hot.
"It is more likely that we see those spikes of heat at early stages because of global warming. It’s too difficult to be certain at this moment, but I would not be surprised to see the Summer deliver the same kind of heat stress at times."
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