Temperatures set to ‘surge’ with a week of sunshine across Greater Manchester

After a long cold winter, Mancunians are set to enjoy a spell of much-needed warmth and sunshine as temperatures are expected to ‘surge significantly’.

While the region is experiencing a ‘breezier and colder’ start to the week today, mercury levels are set to rise throughout the week, with temperatures of up to 18C predicted for Tuesday and Wednesday, the Met Office has reported.

BBC forecaster Chris Fawkes also said the weather is going to get ‘a lot, lot warmer’ across the country this week, with him saying: “As the southerly winds continue to push northwards through Tuesday and Wednesday, those temperatures are going to surge significantly.

“Tuesday – a fine day with some sunshine – maybe a few isolated showers developing through the afternoon but most of you will have a dry day though.”

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Another forecaster at the BBC Phil Morrish added that temperatures could peak at a sweltering 20C between Monday and Thursday this week, saying a ‘sustained period of warm and dry weather’ could last all the way into early April. 

Calling the spike in warm weather a ‘Saharan Sizzler’, Morrish told The Express yesterday: “We’ve got a large area of high pressure which is now sitting over Europe, but what that is going to do is gradually bring the air coming from Africa during next week.

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“Now the weekend is fine and sunny with temperatures up to 16C, which is fine.

“Tomorrow [Monday] might be slightly more cloudy, and then as from Monday onward the high is going to be a little bit further East, allowing the air to come up from Africa.

“We can call it a Saharan Sizzler, with lots of warm hot air coming up from across the country.

“Tuesday to Thursday we can get temperatures of up to 18 or 19C, perhaps 20C. That is 8C above average, so it’s going to be very warm indeed as the hot air comes up over us on Tuesday to Friday.

“Beyond that, it’s going to stay mainly fine… We haven’t got any rain in the charts for the next ten days.”

He added that the ‘pleasant’ weather will last for at least the next ten days, and ‘perhaps the next two weeks’.