A weather map from the Met Office has shown when snow is forecast to fall across Greater Manchester.
Snow will begin falling tonight in some boroughs, with more to come tomorrow morning (Tuesday March 14). A yellow weather warning was issued by forecasters this morning (March 13), which will come into effect later today.
The warning will be in place from 5pm on Monday, to 10am on Tuesday morning. The alert said: “Rain, sleet and snow followed by ice is likely to cause some impacts to travel. Some roads and railways likely to be affected with longer journey times by road, bus and train services.
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"[Expect] some injuries from slips and falls on icy surfaces, and [there will] probably be some icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.”
The warning covers all of Greater Manchester, and the rest of the north of England. Mainland Scotland is also affected, as is most of Wales and parts of the Midlands.
The precipitation map from the Met Office shows how much snow is predicted to fall, where and when. The colour blue signifies rainfall, grey and white shows snow and red and orange stand for hail.
The darkest shade of blue shows more than 4mm of rain per hour, light blue shows between 0.5 to 4mm of rain per hour and the lightest shade shows less than 0.5mm of rainfall. Dark grey represents more than 4mm of snowfall per hour, light grey shows between 0.5 and 4mm and white represents less than 0.5mm.
Dark red shows more than 4mm of hail, orange shows between 0.5 and 4mm and light orange represents less than 0.5mm.
2am
There will be plenty of rain across Manchester from 2am, with some snow moving in across Wigan, Bolton and Rochdale.
3am
More than 4mm of snow will fall in some areas across the region, while less than 0.5mm is forecast in others.
4am
The snow will start moving away from the region at 4am.
7.30am
Hail, rain and some snow will begin making its way towards Greater Manchester from 7.30am.
8.30am
More than 4mm of snow per hour will fall across Wigan and Bolton, with some hail on the way too.
9.30am
More snow and hail is forecast, making its way to Rochdale.
10.30am
More than 4mm of snow will fall in some areas, with less than 0.5mm forecast in others. Much of Greater Manchester will see hail, falling at less than 0.5mm an hour.
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