Dont complain Alan at least your heating is off

Wind and rain picking up a bit here.

It absolutely threw it down earlier!

I reckon heavy rain maybe the main faeture of this.

Completely agree with Kev.  Though your dammed if you do/dont.  Its useful to remind the public to take care when you potentially have debri flying about.  Then again - there will be some really clever news reported tomorrow which will class this as a very damaging storm.  Truth be told - its likely to fall no where near as bad as the 1987 storm.  I heard a story before on the radio before saying this storm will be the worst in 26 years... im sorry - but thats just silly.  Just as much as its silly to write the storm off.  Gutter press have already reported this to be a hurricane... i just sigh and try and correct the people i know and reasure them that the most they need to worry about - is if the bin will fall over.

Heavy rain - 21.4mm since 5pm

986.4mb

Wind around 15mph

Andrew

Par, Cornwall

16 years ago http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/42518.stm

At the time, i was working as a paperboy - that morning was interesting - the woman killed on the wirral was killed no more than 200ft from my house.  Lots of downed trees, lots of fences blown across roads.  

There was a wind recorded at Crosby of 114mph.  Incredible noise from the wind that night.  The wind roared louder than thunder - no joke.  I remember it scaring me and made sure i stayed away from windows.  There was a few loud bangs through the night from garden chairs ending up on the roof etc.  This all happened on low lying urban areas.  I cant remember a storm to blow like that since.  Infact - i remember watching the docs on the 1987 storm and wondering why our storm didnt get similar attention.

Wind has really picked up down here in the last hour or so, if it keeps increasing it could be a very rough night.

Down 3mb in the last hour here. Light to moderate rain. Wind increasing, currently averagin 18mph.

Isles of Scilly weather stations reporting a steady 41mph (gale 😎 with a rapidly dropping pressure - currently 983mb.

Down another 1/2mb since I posted that! Well if nothing else, watching how fast the barometer is dropping is absorbing!

Edit: OK, Let's see....@ 23:00 992.8mb...

The heavy rain looks as though it is moving from West to East along the South as opposed to NE across the Midlands ....maybe it will shunt NWards later?

If I was in Norfolk, near the coast, I'd keep a very close eye on developments later this morning.

I'm calling it a night, although I still expect to be disturbed in the early hours (by the wind especially LOL).

Luckily the LP centre hits precisely when Low tide peaks.  Very very lucky.  Would be interesting to see the effects of the pressure on the water in the area, and how much it lifts it.

Agreed but the heavier stuff looks like running left to right,,,,,,,,,,,,,early days ...so to speak, my back garden is wet enough

EDIT And NNE

Heavier band edging to me

It's finally starting to develop that classic structure on satellite now. The question is how quickly will it intensify - over the UK or as it enters the North Sea?

I'm guessing / hoping that something has gone wrong with the local weather station on St. Martins, Isles of Scilly - the 10min windspeed there is currently registering 86mph! With a top gust of 105mph!!

Is that a typo?