A decent couple of days before low pressure arrives for the weekend
Date published: 02 July 2025
Here's Jon Baylis's latest in-depth weather forecast
As Oldham weather expert Jon Baylis mentioned last week, we didn’t experience a heatwave across the majority of north-west England this week.
We actually only saw one day exceed 25°C as the majority of the heat plume was reserved for more southern and eastern parts of England.
That said, it’s been uncomfortably muggy and hard to get to sleep at night, even with fans on in the bedroom.
Thankfully a cold-front has now brought fresher air from the west and the evenings, for now, will be a bit more pleasant when turning in for the night.
Make the most of the next couple of days as we’ll see plenty of sunshine on offer and more pleasant temperatures, but unfortunately the weekend is looking unsettled with low pressure in charge.
Also with a lot more moisture in the air, the dew point will increase and again it will become quite humid.
Here's Jon's latest in-depth weather forecast:
Today (Thursday): Windy at times but plenty of sunny spells.
Can’t rule out an isolated shower.
Temperatures around average so feeling pleasant in the sunshine, especially without the humidity.
Max 20°C Min 11°C Max Gusts 25mph.
Friday: A similar day.
Plenty of sunny spells, mainly dry, just the outside chance of a shower but the risk is low and another breezy one.
Cloud will begin to thicken towards evening and patchy rain will arrive and a more humid airmass will set in overnight.
Max 21°C Min 13°C Max Gusts 20mph.
Weekend: Rain at times but some drier spells.
Saturday: The morning looks cloudy with patchy rain. In the afternoon we might see a few bright spells develop, as the wind increases breaking the cloud up, but we can still expect some showers.
Max 19°C Min 12°C Max Gusts 25mph.
Sunday: The second half of the weekend looks like a day of bright spells and showers after a mostly cloudy start.
Again, a breezy one and temperatures slightly below average.
Max 18°C Min 11°C Max Gusts 20mph.
Outlook: Another showery day on Monday and then the following few days seem a bit of a mixed bag.
There’ll be high pressure to the southwest of the UK and low pressure or bands of showers to the northwest.
We will be sandwiched in between, so we can expect bright spells and equally some showers.
Temperatures below average until later in the week when they should return to the early twenties with some welcome sunshine returning in time for the weekend.
No sign of another heatwave across our region just yet.
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