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Get the Greater Manchester, England local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Get the Manchester, England local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
More than 100 flood warnings have been issued across the UK and a major incident declared in Greater Manchester as wind and rain hits parts of the country on the first day of 2025.
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps, brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. The map filled the ...
Around 90 mm (3.5 in) of rainfall in 24 hours brought floods to parts of England and Wales on New Year's Day, prompting the Met Office to issue severe weather warnings; this led to 137 flood warnings being issued by the Environment Agency (EA) across England, Scotland and Wales, with extensive flooding affecting parts of North West England, especially Greater Manchester. [1]
Until 2012, Stott was the regular weather presenter for BBC North West Today breakfast and lunchtime bulletins. [3] She also presented a mid-morning show on BBC Radio Manchester. [4] In November 2009, Stott invited her radio listeners to sponsor her to shave her head, raising money for BBC Children In Need.
BBC Local Radio was introduced to the North West on 22 November 1967 with the launch of Radio Merseyside in Liverpool, followed on 10 September 1970 by Radio Manchester and on 26 January 1971 by Radio Blackburn (later relaunched as BBC Radio Lancashire).
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