{"id":579161,"date":"2025-11-18T22:30:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/579161\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T22:30:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:30:25","slug":"greater-manchester-flood-alert-in-place-amid-met-office-weather-warnings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/579161\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Manchester flood alert in place amid Met Office weather warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"

It comes amid plunging temperatures and heavy rainfall<\/p>\n

21:11, 18 Nov 2025Updated 21:27, 18 Nov 2025<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Airport Relief Road flooded on Tuesday(Image: Jonathan Dittman)<\/p>\n

A flood warning has been put in place in Greater Manchester amid Met Office weather<\/a> warnings, with heavy rain and a cold plunge battering the UK.<\/p>\n

A severe weather warning has been issued for Greater Manchester <\/a>by the meteorologists as an Arctic blast sweeps the UK. It comes after a day of heavy rain and sleet across the region.<\/p>\n

Temperatures in the region are forecast to drop to -2C this week, with lows of -10C possible in parts of the country<\/a>, the weather agency said, with outbreaks of heavy rain also expected over the coming days.<\/p>\n

Join the Manchester Evening News <\/strong>WhatsApp<\/strong> group <\/strong>HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

The Environment Agency has now put a flooding alert in place which covers the River Bollin catchment area, including Knutsford, Wilmslow<\/a>, Macclesfield<\/a> and Bollington.<\/p>\n

It comes after the Manchester Airport<\/a> Relief Road (A555) became fully submerged again on Tuesday night (November 18).<\/p>\n

An ‘unexpected amount of rainfall’ and debris from a fallen tree caused the main road to be closed off in both directions.<\/p>\n

Stockport<\/a> Council said in a statement: “The A555 has been closed and will remain closed overnight, Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice closed off the road with the surrounding area hit by the flood alert(Image: Rachel Lyndsay)<\/p>\n

“We believe that damage caused by Storm Claudia, including tree fall, has resulted in a water channel being diverted, causing the road to flood.”We’re looking into this, and we will provide a further update tomorrow, Wednesday.”<\/p>\n

The latest closure was put in place just days after Storm Claudia also caused the dual carriageway to become flooded and closed off on Friday last week,<\/p>\n

Rising river levels overnight may lead to flooding, the Environment Agency said, with low lying land and roads near rivers likely to be worst affected.<\/p>\n

The flood alert area includes catchment areas for Rivers Bollin, Dean and Pedley, Birkin and Mobberley Brooks and their tributaries. Areas around Knutsford, Wilmslow, Hale<\/a>, Macclesfield and Bollington may be affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It comes amid plunging temperatures and heavy rainfall 21:11, 18 Nov 2025Updated 21:27, 18 Nov 2025 The Airport…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,183272,2768,1288,16,1190,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-579161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-manchester-airport-relief-road","13":"tag-manchester-weather","14":"tag-stockport","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-uk-weather","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115573072001481398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579161","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=579161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}