Good riddance to our wettest July ever!

Good riddance to July. What a truly dreadful month.

Oldham weather expert Jon Baylis insists that the stats say it all - it was our wettest July ever.

Preston managed 302% of the July average rainfall, whereas for us it was 232%.

It was more like Autumn with numerous areas of low pressure powered by the jet stream, and this is clearly shown with the average pressure reading.

Here's your forecast for tomorrow (Friday) and the weekend.

Tomorrow: A similar day to today, but with slightly less windy conditions and showers eventually fading and being confined to eastern parts. 

Max 17°C Min 10°C.

Weekend: Details a little uncertain.

Saturday: It was looking like another wet weekend day with low pressure arriving, but, the latest suggests that this will now slip south of us.

Therefore the current thinking is bright spells and thundery showers and particularly cool and windy.

With details uncertain for Saturday, look out for updates on Twitter. 

Max 14°C Min 9°C.

Sunday: A strong and gusty westerly wind transporting in another scattering of showers, perhaps heavy with hail and thunder. 

Max 16°C Min 11°C.

Outlook: The first few days sees little change but then signs are there for high pressure to build in the Atlantic then move across the UK.

This will bring drier and sunnier conditions, something we haven’t seen for a long time.

The issue is, this looks like it will only last 3-4 days at best before we return to an unsettled theme.

That said, sometimes a high pressure can really build and lock itself upon us for a while, so fingers crossed we see something we can call summer again.

Depending on how long the high can last and what direction the wind flows from, will determine how warm we’ll get.

Watch this space.

Follow @ChadWeather on Twitter for the latest forecasts and warnings.

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