{"id":570791,"date":"2025-11-14T22:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/570791\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:58:15","slug":"flood-warning-issued-for-greater-manchester-as-storm-claudia-brings-downpours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/570791\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood warning issued for Greater Manchester as Storm Claudia brings downpours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flooding is expected from 11pm<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35 __className_a22ef4\">Tom Burnett<\/strong> Content Editor<\/p>\n<p>22:08, 14 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0_The-flood-warning-has-been-issued-for-the-River-Mersey-tonightJPG.jpg\" alt=\"The flood warning has been issued for the River Mersey tonight\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The flood warning has been issued for the River Mersey tonight(Image: Environment Agency )<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">A flood warning has been issued for an area of Greater Manchester tonight, with people in the affected area urged to &#8216;act now&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">The Environment Agency has issued the warning, which means flooding is expected, for the River Mersey at Cheadle Wood and Ford Lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">Flooding is expected from 11pm this evening after <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/greater-manchester-news\/storm-claudia-sees-firefighters-called-32878870\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Storm Claudia battered the region with heavy rain.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">The Environment Agency flood warning, issued shortly after 9.40pm, states: &#8220;High river levels are expected to cause flooding today. Flooding is expected on 14 November 2025 from 11pm tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Join the Manchester Evening News <\/strong><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">WhatsApp<\/strong><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"> group <\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/LUaHo8T8DDWDaHg65G29aN\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"HERELink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">&#8220;Locations most affected will be land and property close to the River Mersey at <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/didsbury\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Didsbury<\/a> Golf Course and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/cheadle-and-cheadle-hulme\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheadle<\/a> Wood. we expect the river to peak around 4am and levels to slowly subside dropping below the threshold for this warning between 9 and 11 am Saturday morning<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">&#8220;We are closely monitoring the situation . Start acting on your flood plan if you have one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">Two flood alerts, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/weather\/two-flood-alerts-issued-greater-32877524\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">which are less severe than a flood warning and mean that flooding is possible<\/a>, also remain in force in Greater Manchester this evening &#8211; with other alerts in place in Cheshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire as well as elsewhere in England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flooding is expected from 11pm Tom Burnett Content Editor 22:08, 14 Nov 2025 The flood warning has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,17753,3041,393,4884,2465,2768,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-570791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cheadle-and-cheadle-hulme","10":"tag-didsbury","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-manchester-weather","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115550534376845130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}