Now THAT was a shower!

The rain caused some flash flooding

A deluge of torrential rain has hit Oldham this afternoon.

Oldhamers were treated to almost 30 minutes of non-stop heavy rain accompanied by thunder and lightning.

The Chronicle's weather expert, ChadWeather had predicted "heavy rain around lunchtime, perhaps with a rumble of thunder", and as ever, he was absolutely right.

A video shows the downpour in Oldham town centre, plus flooding on Featherstall Road North near to the Tesco store.

Video: @RHJOfficial on Twitter

There are further videos showing torrential rain in Moorside and Grasscroft.

Jon Bayliss of ChadWeather has tweeted some rainfall stats from the downpour.

Total rainfall so far today:

At 1pm: 2.8mm
1:02pm: 3.4mm
1:04pm: 4.4mm
1:05pm: 5mm
1:06pm: 5.8mm
1:07pm: 7.2mm
1:08pm: 8.8mm
1:09pm: 9.2mm

That's 6.4mm in 9 mins. 1.6mm of that in 1 minute.

Video: Andrea Colley

The rain should ease off this afternoon.  It'll become colder tomorrow with sunny spells.

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