Astley Green, Manchester Weather
About Astley Green, Manchester
Astley Green retains a stoic dignity, defined by the lingering echoes of the coal seams that once fed the furnaces of the North West. It lies 1.6 miles south-south-east of Tyldesley (from Tyldesley: bearing 153°T, OS grid SJ 702 996), and is situated south-east of Astley village. The landscape is dominated by the colossal silhouette of the Astley Green Colliery, where the towering headgear stands as a rusted sentinel against the shifting grey clouds. Beneath these iron giants, the Lancashire Mining Museum preserves the gravity of a vanished industry, grounding the horizon in a heavy, metallic silence. Beyond the museum, the water of Whitehead Brook curls through the low-lying fields, its surface catching the pale, fleeting light of the afternoon. This water flows with a quiet purpose, indifferent to the industrial ghosts that linger in the shadows of the machinery. Astley Green breathes with the rhythm of a geography that has traded the soot of the deep earth for the quietude of open sky and verdant space. Such shifts in character lend a singular, melancholy beauty to the terrain, where the weight of past toil informs the stillness of the modern day.
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About This Astley Green, Manchester Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Astley Green, 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 Astley Green includes coordinates 53.493015, -2.449625, 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 Astley Green is available on the Astley Green 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.