Lowton, Manchester Weather
About Lowton, Manchester
Lowton stretches across the flat, hardworking plains of the Lancashire coalfield, where the horizon remains wide and open to the grey, shifting light of the North West. It lies 0.9 miles east-north-east of Golborne (from Golborne: bearing 78°T, OS grid SJ 618 980). Modern commuters now traverse roads that once echoed with the heavy, rhythmic clatter of pit ponies and coal wagons. The landscape retains a memory of this industrial gravity, yet it softens as one moves toward the quiet, reedy expanse of Pennington Flash Country Park, where the water mirrors the clouds in a silver, unbroken sheet. Near the western boundaries, the Golborne Colliery Memorial keeps a solemn watch, grounding the busy pace of the present in the quiet dignity of the past. Lowton balances these disparate identities, holding onto a suburban stillness that persists even as the modern world pushes against its edges. A subtle, metallic tang of history still clings to the air on damp mornings, rising from the earth like a half-remembered song. Each street corner feels defined by this transition from the soot-stained toil of yesteryear to the unremarkable, steady pulse of contemporary life.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Lowton, Manchester Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Lowton, 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 Lowton includes coordinates 53.478118, -2.575899, 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 Lowton is available on the Lowton 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.