A YELLOW weather warning has been issued in Oldham.

The warning is for rain and is in place between 6pm tonight and 5pm tomorrow.

According to the Met Office, people can expect a few homes and businesses to be flooded, spray and flooding on roads, which will make journey times longer, bus and train services affected with journey times taking longer, and some interruption to power supplies and other services.

A spokesman said: "An area of persistent, heavy rain will arrive from the southwest by Saturday evening before moving east overnight and through Sunday.

"The rain should clear from the southwest on Sunday morning but will persist over parts of north Wales and northern England through much of Sunday.

"Through the period many parts of this area will see 20 to 30 mm of rain.

"Where the heaviest rain will fall remains uncertain but there is the potential for 30 to 40 mm of rain to fall within a few hours in places.

"The rain will be accompanied by strong winds with 35-40 mph gusts likely quite widely."

A flood alert has also been issued for the Upper River Irwell catchment which includes Oldham. 

A spokesman for the government's flood information service said: "River levels have risen as a result of heavy rainfall.

"Consequently, flooding of low lying land, roads and farmland is possible today and into tomorrow.

"We believe there is a possibility of flooding for low lying land and roads around the Rivers Beal, Roch and Croal, Limy Water and their tributaries.

"Further rainfall is forecast over the next 24 hours. We expect river levels to remain high until tomorrow evening.

"Our incident response staff are closely monitoring weather forecasts and river levels and will issue flood warnings if necessary.

Please be aware of your surroundings and keep up to date with the current situation."