LIVE snow updates as AMBER weather warning issued for parts of Greater Manchester

Snow has started falling over parts of Greater Manchester this afternoon.

Light showers of the white stuff have reportedly fallen over parts of Oldham and Bury, with more snow forecast for later this evening. Temperatures have plummeted to around 3C in our region, with the mercury set to drop even lower as the day goes on.

This comes amid a number of weather warnings for snow issued by the Met Office. The warnings are in place from tomorrow until Friday afternoon.

The Met Office has also issued a new amber heavy snow warning for large parts of England from 3pm on Thursday to midday on Friday which covers parts of Greater Manchester

READ MORE: Met Office weather forecast hour by hour for every Greater Manchester borough as heavy snow is set to hit

Parts of the south have already been affected by the snow showers following the coldest night of the year on Tuesday. The Met Office has said temperatures at Kinbrace in the Highlands dropped to minus 15.4C overnight, the lowest of the year so far.

If snow has started falling where you are, send pictures to newsdesk@men-news.co.uk.

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The Met Office has confirmed that the bracing -15.4C temperature recorded in parts of the UK Tuesday was not only the coldest night of the year, but the coldest in the UK since 2010.

The freezing conditions still have some way to go to beat the record lowest temperature ever recorded in the UK, which was a bone-chilling -27.2C recorded three times in 1895, 1982 and 1995 respectively.

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