Yep indeed I agree.

Senior forecaster Jo Farrow over on NW: 

"This storm still has potential to really develop as it moves over the UK, it seems that it's most violent stage maybe over the North Sea tomorrow"

Looks like for those who live Watford southwards, possibly just a blustery breeze blowing and maybe not the event that was progged 36 hours ago. May end up more violent in East Anglia yet. Guess we will have to wait and see.

Gone very still here too- in line with the charts - north of the LP slack isobars.  Expect some heavy rain later.

Im on a train down to London at 7am tomorrow.  Will be interesting to see the damage on the way -if the trains are running.  Will report back here tomorrow with a cross section report.

http://www.weatherlink.com/user/puglet/index.php?view=summary&headers=1

hope you werent refering to me? i was outside thinking the lull before the storm.

It was flat calm here about an hour ago,wind has started to pick up a bit now,been rainin steady for several hours now

Two local weather stations on the Isles of Scilly reporting a low pressure of 984mb currently and a current windspeed of 37mph. Things are starting to pick up.

My brother lives on St. Martins, one of the smaller islands and he has texted to say that the conditions are starting to go down hill but that so far it isn't too bad.

Going purely on infrared and rainfall imagery, The LP looks to be approaching the Bristol Channel on a ENE track. That's not too bad dependant of the proximity of the strong winds on its southern flank. I'm slightly more optimistic that I may escape the worst but a lot can happen in a few hours, as evidenced by whats currently already occuring

Ihope you all have a safe night /day down south, talk later

The truth of the matter is no one knows how it will all pan out not even a met wizard or wizards it does make me wonder if that maybe should be said on telly only trouble some people might go into total panic and also understand the mets point of view about public safety.

met are between the rock and the hard place at the mo.

986.1mb at Culdrose at 10pm. 4.3mb drop in 1 hour.

988mb and falling here. radar showing rain on the way.

Starting to pick up now, Gsy airport 200 31Kts gusting to 45 Kts. Temp. has warmed currently 15.5C.

Rain is still very heavy, however now it is getting breezy. Seas sound thunderous.

Sorry I cannot give speeds or pressures, just general observations.

And the old types of charts

Currently at 988.3mb, dropped by 1.5mb in the last hour, it should start dropping quite quickly over the next couple of hours since I should be near the centre of the low pressure.

The BBC1 22.25 forecast pretty much mirrored that if you watched the graphics and didn't listen to the commentary 

ian fergason has just spoken about a "down grade" in expected wind speeds typically gusts 50-60 with higher speeds being the exception not the rule .(thats for the points west region)

A picture of the devastation in the south. http://forum.netweather.tv/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=190467