Weather24Snow in Manchester: live map and the next 24 hours
Snow, sleet and freezing rain in their own colours.
The time-lapse shows which way the snow is moving. Search for your town to move the map there.
Snow in Manchester now and over the next 24 hours
Current conditions, snowfall in centimetres per hour, ice risk and wind every three hours. Another place? Use the search above.
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Snow in the next 24 hours · Manchester
Updated 12:00
The Pennines just east of the city see snow far more often than Manchester itself — when the M62 over the hills turns white, the city centre is often still wet.
How to read the snow map
Each type of precipitation has its colour, each colour four steps: the darker, the heavier.
Blue is snow
The darker the blue, the heavier it snows — from light flurries to over a millimetre of water an hour, roughly a centimetre of fresh snow.
Lilac is sleet
Wet snow, or rain and snow together. Typical where the snow line sits: it rarely settles, but roads and pavements turn to slush.
Pink is freezing rain
Freezing rain, freezing drizzle and ice pellets. Even a little of it glazes roads, so pink stays bright even when the rate is low.
Green is rain
Liquid precipitation. Where green meets blue, that is the snow line right now.
Snow or ice on the way? The app warns you.
A push before snow or freezing rain starts where you are — plus the snow forecast hour by hour for the next two days.
Snow elsewhere in the UK
For rain without the snow colours, use the UK rain radar.