I'd get Matty to check your boiler if I were you. 

Even down here in the soft south it has been rather gusty this morning. Waiting at the traffic lights on my bike I almost got blown over by a tremendous gust funnelling under London Bridge!

Can't believe there wasn't a red warning issued for this over Scotland. As others have said these only evenr seem to be issued for the south. The furthest north I have ever seen a red warning issued for is mid Wales, I think.

Cold front has now passed, and the worst of the wind is over. Colder air starting to seep down. Radar picking up sleet and snow showers to sea level in N scotland. 

It's so windy in Manchester that the Beetham/Hilton Tower is howling again

Was that Hurricane Bawbag?

Some really very heavy sleet and snow showers packing into NE scotland. Could see a decent covering in places like aberdeen by the evening. 

Lerwick is really getting battered

http://www.lunnahouse.co.uk/camera.html

Actually the current temp in lerwick is -3C and there is no chance of it rising above about -1C all day. Thats unusually cold for shetland, you would only expect this in a strong northerly like we have. 

I think the worst of the winds have passed through Burnley now though it is still very gusty at times. Blue sky showing in places and the winds have backed around to the northwest.

Cheers, Paul S.

Some scary pics on Twitter #scotstorm

https://twitter.com/Paul_A_Harris/status/408525192130863104/photo/1

https://twitter.com/SeanBattySTV/status/250531564239335424/photo/1

As soon as the front passed and winds turned WNW we really did see an increase here. Max gust 64 mph 10 mins ago with many gusts to 60mph. We are very low down here too.

There seems to be as bit of a surge in the NW of England as well.  This photo shows the sea in Morecambe Bay approaching the west coast mainline railway just south of Carnforth/north of Lancaster. 

Rain soon turning to snow by 1600 around Oslo this afternoon and snow showers in Aberdeen this afternoon and evening - lets see if I can make it home!! :)

LOL: !!! Just spat coffee all over the laptop!

The Lune is now flooding Lancaster!!!

If anyone is interested, here's my wind speed and dew point graphs for today. The squall line is obvious and then a very quick drop in wind speed and temp. Peak gust 102.0mph at 06:06 with average speeds up until 7am being 60mph.

Stormy

A windy morning, but it's picked up considerably in the last hour - some seriously strong gusts now.   The cold front was shredded to pieces here with nothing more than some patchy cloud and a very brief light spell of drizzle around 12.30pm!

Well - this has come as a bit of a shock... New brighton on the wirral is currently under water by about 1-2 metres from the photos im being sent.

Crazy weather, as this isnt particularly low lying area (though it does face the wind)

New brighton car park:

http://www.webcams.travel/webcam/1341948006-Weather-New-Brighton-Merseyside-weather-cam-Wallasey

and

http://www.wirralcam.org/waterfront.shtml

I have a picture of Morrisons in NB flooded.  Water looks to cime up as far as windscreens on cars and HGV lorries doors. Ive never seen anything like it for our neck of the woods.

CAnt uplocad the picture due to being on a works PC. 

These are areas with a hugh sea wall and new sea defences....really dread to think whats going to hit real low lying areas like Norfolk and suffolk.

Thames barrier will be raised later no doubt.

Been very windy here, a few branches are on the lane off trees, the wind seems to be easing off a bit now after peaking around lunchtime.

Strongest Gust for me  is 35.6 km/h at 14:11..

Tomasz Schafernaker on BBC 1:

"A mound of water is heading in the direction of Lincolnshire and East Anglia... imminent threat to life"

Parts of Essex are being evacuated.

There's been two reds in Edinburgh to my knowledge

1 for snow in late Dec 2010 - which in the end wasn't as bad as earlier in the month when we got no red alerts and loads of snow, they can't win :-)

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/red-alert-in-edinburgh-as-winter-bites-1078785

1 for wind, 3rd Jan 2012, not bawbag, but worse, 102mph gust on blackford hill

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/292164-gale-force-winds-and-blizzards-batter-scotland/

There does seem to be a bias IMO towards areas of population, which may be sane enough really, and since the SE of England is the most overcrowded area of the country...