Exactly when heavy rain will hit Greater Manchester as Met Office weather warnings come into force

It's set to be a rainy day in Greater Manchester today - with a yellow Met Office weather warning issued by the Met Office now in force.

The forecaster has issued two rain warnings for today (Monday), one yellow warning and one amber. The yellow warning covers all of our region as well as much of England and Wales.

It came into force at midnight and will last until the very end of the day. The amber warning, which covers parts of the Midlands, Yorkshire and Humber, parts of Oxfordshire, the East of England and the Gloucestershire, came into force at 5am and will last until 9pm tonight.

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Forecasters predict that all areas covered by the warnings will see heavy downpours today with travel disruption likely. Some flooding is possible in areas covered by the yellow warning.

For those covered by the amber alert, forecasters predict the rain is even more likely to cause flooding with residents urged to be prepared. In our region, rain started to fall from the early hours but the heavy downpours are likely to hit from around 8am.

Heavy showers are then forecast through the entire morning and into the early afternoon, according to the Met Office. The rain is likely to ease off from around 3pm but lighter showers are still set to fall.

From around 10pm, overcast conditions are then forecast as the showers ease. On the outlook for today in the UK, Met Office chief meteorologist Frank Saunders said: "Following on from the heavy rain that some of us have seen on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the new working week begins with rain across a large swathe of England and Wales.

"The area with the higher likelihood of impactful rain is now covered by an Amber warning, stretching from Gloucester across the Midlands to the Wash and the Humber. It’s likely that some parts of this area will be worse affected than others – it all depends on where, and if, the weather system responsible for the heavy rain stalls and pivots.

"However, within this warning period - which encompasses two rush hours – some localities will probably see between 50 and 80 mm of rain, while there’s the possibility that a few could experience in excess of 100mm of rain. Where this happens, this brings the potential for travel disruption and localised flooding."

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