And... it's through! Temperature's dropping slowly, the rain has eased and the relative silence is deafening. Phew, just run-of-the-mill 20 or low 30-something gusts now.

At a quick glance it looks like everything's intact although it's pretty dark out there, a full check will have to wait until daylight.

As this trough exits stage right, it's now the turn of the north and west... good luck guys!

Roughest period of sustained winds for many a year. I've spent most of that windy spell at work in Basingstoke so haven't undertaken any damage assessment at home yet. Hopefully I'll manage to get home OK!

What promised to be a quiet night shift was far from it. Fww, all the issues here have been water related(as usual) !!!

Doh, it looks like the trough finally caught up to the cold front in your neck of the woods and as a result it's pepped up again. Hope your survey reveals nothing of note later!

Interesting journey home from Basingstoke to Alton. Many trees down but the chain saw gangs are out which is just as well. Quite a few places where only one car can pass but the drivers are being sensible as they were after the stingjet in October

A wet night with periods of heavy to very heavy rain, 12mms in total since midnight.

Gusty winds but nothing severe.

Total rainfall, 23mms from this event.

Very low pressure and continuing to fall. Just now 940.2hPa. Wind, well it's stormy but it has been much worse. Peak so far this morning has been 68mph here, with 50mph in very sheltered Portree. Expecting the highest speeds later today.

We have squally hail, sleet and wet snow showers to sea level, it feels raw.

Only lost one fence panel, strongest gust 43mph (sheltered spot), 32mm of rain.

Hope everyone out there is OK and no major damage  

Damage report:

From what I can see there is no damage at all to our gardens or property.

The neighbours to our left have had a 40ft tree fall down, which has destroyed their left-hand fence and is now sitting in their left-hand neighbours garden. The top of the tree has damaged their annex at the back of the garden, but it only looks minor.. perhaps a broken window at worst. But that was very lucky. A couple of metres difference and it would have squished the whole thing.

Meanwhile, one of their own trees has fallen in line with the 40ft one, and has destroyed much of their left-hand fence. So their garden is now without any fences and is just an amass of tree debris.

All looks ok out the front and on the railway line. Fulwell station has apparently experienced some flooding though.

Southern trains (basically Surrey and Sussex into London) not operating until further notice - 70 fallen trees and the Balcombe tunnel (main Brighton line) flooded.

On the roads, the A27 eastbound closed for flooding from near Havant through and past Chichester despite recent drainage work which was supposed to solve the problem - 60mm rain and 70mph gusts reported widely

What a night. The wind 'switched off' at around 06.20hrs. The constant humming/ roaring of the previous 15 hours suddenly fell eerily silent after a final gusty flourish.

One to remember..not enjoyable either.

I can see why an amber weather for rain was issued:

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/142151.aspx

Many local streams here have completely burst their banks...

(Edit: ...and it's still lashing it down out there!)

IMBY, just a wet and windy night. Peak gust of 48mph, not as high as December 5th (58mph) or October 28th (77mph). A few thousand homes without power in Suffolk, if reports are accurate, but not the scores of thousands that went off in the county in the St Judes day storm, when trees were still in leaf.

A lot of rail disruption locally, though - trees in wet banked ground are always vulnerable.

100,000 homes lost power in the south. Let's hope they get reconnected as soon as possible. Always very greateful to the engineers that have to go out is awful conditions to rectify the damage. Hats off to them 

Meanwhile up here average speeds are blowing 54mph (storm force 10) with gusts to 75mph.

That must be close to record-breakingly low for you, I'd have thought!

In the cold light of day it seems we've almost escaped, other than two large fence panels blowing down at the back. Unfortunately for the neighbour they've blown into their greenhouse - and IIRC it was the neighbours who erected the fence, so they won't be happy!

Some large 24hr precip totals showing up on the 0600 Synops.....the highest I can find is  69.2mm but most of southern England has had over an inch...www.weatherobs.com.   If you haven't come across this page before go to Marker drop down in the top left corner and select 24hr precipitation.

It's still falling Renton  I don't think we'll see it bottom until later this afternoon. 939.8hPa is the new low, and yes, I think this will be a record for 6 years of collecting stats. Be very interesting to see all the stats from around when the low has passed.

What a rough night interesting to read all the posts that were flying about

Hope there wasn't too much damage done???