Weather update - Oldham set for cloud and more familiar temperatures

A sunny scene across Oldham earlier this afternoon (Tuesday)

The sunny skies over Oldham today (Tuesday) are predicted to wash away gradually as the heatwave cools off.

Tomorrow’s temperatures will remain fairly high at around 19°C, but the sun looks like it will only break through the clouds in spells.

In the evening, scattered showers will begin to creep in, but will clear by the following morning.

The cloud will remain, however, as we head through the sunny spells of Thursday and temperatures fall slightly to 18°C.

On Friday, temperatures may start to feel all too familiar. 

As fresher air sweeps in across the Atlantic, the day could be the UK’s coolest since June 21.

In Oldham, temperatures are predicted to peak at only 16°C – perhaps offering light relief give recent times.

Although the weekend will return us to our new normal – at 19 and 20°C – it will also bring heavy rain which may continue into another cloudy week.

Hopefully, the clouds will break long enough for stargazers to enjoy the Perseid meteor shower gracing the skies over Oldham this weekend.

The cluster of shooting stars lighting up the sky is associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle, whose travel in an 113-year orbit ejects a stream of debris known as the Perseid cloud.

The tiny particles in this cloud are what become shooting stars as they burn up upon entering the  Earth’s atmosphere.

Primarily visible in the Northern Hemisphere, the opportunity to witness this spectacle arrives once each year even though the comet itself has not passed near Earth since 1992.  

If you find a break in the cloud (and an umbrella), then be sure to look out for the constellation Perseus and its namesake.

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