Huge cloud formation resembling a tornado spotted just outside Rochdale as storms sweep across the region

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Rochdale as storms swept across the region.There were heavy downpours and localised flooding in some areas today as lightning storms developed this afternoon.And the unstable conditions left locals weather watchers in Rochdale and south Lancashire aghast this evening as a cloud resembling a tornado formed on the hills of Todmorden Moor.It is believed to be a funnel-cloud- a cone-shaped cloud which extends from the base of a main cloud towards the ground.They are formed in the same way as tornados with a rotating column of wind drawing in cloud droplets making a region of intense low pressure visible.In the UK they often look like thin dangling bits of rope, hanging from the cloud above.However they never touch the ground and if they do they.