Clifton Green, Manchester Weather
About Clifton Green, Manchester
Clifton Green wears the quiet sobriety of the North West, a place where the persistent memory of industrial labour softens into the verdant edges of the Manchester landscape. It lies 1.0 miles north-east of Swinton (from Swinton: bearing 50°T, OS grid SD 787 027), and is situated east of Clifton village. The horizon here is defined by a subtle interplay of brick and bramble, where the red-clay vernacular of the district meets the encroaching sprawl of mature greenery. A short distance away, the low-lying basin of Swinton Vale offers a damp, mossy refuge that suggests the hidden, fluid geography beneath the modern tarmac. Sunlight often catches the damp surfaces of the local lanes, turning the common thoroughfares into ribbons of grey slate that reflect the shifting, melancholic skies of Lancashire. Clifton Green maintains a deliberate composure, holding its own against the rhythmic hum of the nearby motorway network that pulses like a distant, mechanical tide. Just to the east, the sprawling expanse of Prestwich Forest Park provides a wild, untamed counterpoint to the orderly domesticity of the residential streets. These spaces hold a particular clarity in the afternoons, when the shadows stretch thin across the grass and the air carries the faint, metallic tang of the region’s long-faded coal-hewing heritage.
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About This Clifton Green, Manchester Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Clifton 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 Clifton Green includes coordinates 53.521164, -2.322338, 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 Clifton Green is available on the Clifton 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.