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We seem to on the very edge of something developing to our immediate east, both north and south. Clouds building rapidly yet we remain in the sun. Definitely a Pennine driven event. Somewhere looks as though it'll catch a shower in the next hour or 2.

Everyone has there own ideal weather for just generally enjoying life outside the house but for me this weekend has been perfect. Give me 20c, low humidity and the strong May sunshine (that adds about 15c when sat out in it) over those hot, sultry mid summer days. In this country, 25c and over just saps energy. Fantastic to get out for a walk, a few drinks outside the local pub and the back for a bbq without the need to take any sort of break as its too hot. A good May looks like it could at least continue to the BH weekend .

Not a great day. A cloudy day with rain on and off since late morning and maybe reached the dizzy heights of 13c. The highlight has been the showers that have recently passed over. The heaviest rainfall of the year so far at almost 22mm/hr. Only thing missing was a bit of thunder and lightning.

I'm at Rochdale today home to Sutton. The last home football league match for what could be a while. Hopefully we can bounce back quickly. The National League is not an easy league to get out of. We could probably do with a couple of well timed heavy showers to calm down some of our idiots who want to cause a bit of bother.

We seem to have struck lucky here this morning. The clouds have broken over the last hour and there's more blue sky than grey. It actually feels warm and spring like in the sunshine for the first time this year. No doubt we'll be back under the cloud shortly .

Yeah the last of the sun here now as the cloud fills in and the rain slowly makes its way north into the southern part of the region. Looks a tad wet there and with the added wind its probably pretty grim. So far, still a better day than expected here but inevitably it will go downhill this afternoon.

Unlike last Friday, fingers crossed some of us could be on the right side of a wrong forecast today for a change. Low cloud has just cleared here to leave blue skies and the rain to the south doesn't seem, at the moment at least, to be nudging as far north as expected. I'd expected a bit of a washout all day so a pleasant surprise to see the sun stay for a bit longer.

Currently a grim 5.5c and will finish just shy of 11mm of rain if it clears away shortly. A little different to the sun & showers double digit temp forecast. We've all seen worse chicken ups when it comes to forecasts but at this time of year the occasional bit of sunshine makes such a difference. I think that's what makes today worse than what was predicted.

After 2 1/2 poor days there had been a little hope in the forecast that today was to be better. How wrong could they be? Not only are things far further north, but this development of rain over us wasn't even predicted at 9pm last night. Not great for those of us working outdoors trying to plan works .

A perfect day for a wander. Walked a few miles up to the local reservoir and then a couple of pints back through the village. Beautiful day, a little hazy now, but better than expected. Enjoy the rest of the weekend

Today's rain barely warrants an umbrella so I'm not entirely sure on the need for the yellow warning. 4mm here since midnight came quite early, so some surfaces are now quite dry. Maybe some rain still to come this morning, but nothing that'll cause any problems.

Heavy snow for 20 minutes or so but not a chance of it settling. We'd had a good hour of full strong sun beforehand and every surface had been warmed. To have any luck with spring snow the sun is best avoided.

Snow here is now heavy enough to be settling on grass. Temp just above 1c and still sub zero dp.

We have plenty of small flakes of snow falling. Just snow with no rain mixed in as yet. Temp is dropping and is currently 2.8c but dew point -2.6c.

Definitely one of the better winter storms of recent years. Difficult to measure but 10 to 12cm here in the end. Memorable for a 1st 12hrs that didn't put a flake on the ground for more than 5 seconds and a 12hrs that was as blizzard like as I can remember. Beautiful March sun today. Time to look forward to the first 20c of the year. Great to see that, on the whole, the region did pretty well.

That'll definitely help. There's more snow on my roof than on the road.

Blizzard like conditions here with a bitter howling wind and a temp of 0c. After waiting 12 hours the snow finally started to settle at around 8pm and we now have full cover. Proper winter weather in 2nd week of Spring.

I'd love to know what the Met Office app is on. I can't see where this forecast snow is coming from in the next few hours. Looks like a clearance coming from the SW to me for a while. The main interest is much later this evening.

These fairly beefy showers running all the way back into N Wales look like they maybe of interest to us. As the low tracks east they seem to be taking a more easterly track. The first batch just hit here with the heaviest snow of the day. Temperature and dew point both dropping.

Altitude is helping locally. Nothing here at 200m but get up at 250m and definitely at 300m there is a covering of snow. Just been over Ashworth Moor and nowt exciting considering the potential. All seems to have have gone much further north. Maybe we'll all get something as the front moves back through.

I can verify that. Its actually quite frustrating and intriguing in equal measure. It's a very localised issue. If you run through the radar you can clearly see it. Screen_Recording_20230309_101521_Netweather Radar.mp4

You couldn't make this up. It's as though we're on this little island here in Dale. If the wind has yet to activate the full snow shield then god help us later on

Yep, not difficult to spot beginnings of 'the hole' on the latest radar. Moisture not struggling to get to Lancaster/Harrogate. Hoping this day isn't going to be as frustrating as its starting to look

Difficult to see what's going to happen in 24 hrs at the moment so time to focus on what is going on now. On the current radar over the Humber estuary is a blob that is shown on the met office precipitation maps. The met show it making its way here early afternoon. Might be one to watch.

Cracking sunset just now in Rochdale town centre. Two minutes later its all gone.