Alt, Manchester Weather
About Alt, Manchester
Alt holds a quiet gravity, defined by the steady incline of the Pennine foothills rising above the industrial pulse of Greater Manchester. It lies 1.0 miles south-south-west of Lees (from Lees: bearing 209°T, OS grid SD 944 031), and is situated north-east of Park Bridge village. The landscape here is defined by the earth’s rougher edges, where the steepening rise of The Rock provides a sudden, sharp relief against the horizon. Below this summit, the land softens into the deep, shaded hollow of Rocher Vale, where the moisture clings to the mossy stone even through the driest months. The local terrain retains the echoes of a harder, working past, where coal-seamed earth once dictated the lives of those who laboured in the dark. Now, the wind travels unhindered across the open slopes, carrying the scent of damp heather and the distant, metallic tang of the valley’s historical ironworks. Alt remains a place where the sky feels unexpectedly vast, pressing down upon the houses with a weight that shifts from bruised violet to pale, brittle gold as the sun retreats. It is a boundary territory, caught between the encroachment of urban brick and the stubborn, wild persistence of the high moorland grasses.
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Live animated radar for Alt and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Alt, Manchester Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Alt, Manchester, England, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, real-time aviation weather (METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport), precipitation radar and Meteosat satellite imagery. Public safety alerts are sourced from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS), covering wind, rain, snow, ice, fog, thunderstorm and extreme heat warnings. Air quality data includes PM2.5, PM10, ozone and the UK Daily Air Quality Index (DAQI 1-10) as used by DEFRA and the Met Office. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Alt includes coordinates 53.524886, -2.084733, in the county of Manchester, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Alt is available on the Alt map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Manchester weather hub.
Weather data is sourced from the Met Office and the open-source Open-Meteo API, whose ensemble includes the Met Office UKMO model. Severe weather warnings come from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS). River level and tidal data are sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring and National Tide Gauge Network APIs. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov, with a modelled estimate shown where no reporting station is in range. Radar is provided by RainViewer and satellite imagery by EUMETSAT. All data updates automatically on every page visit.