Low pressure is deepening again, 4mb drop back to 930mb in the last hour! 

Woken up by the wind again. 80mph to start Christmas day. Very stormy but thankfully not a blip to the power supply again. Hopefully the worst is now passed.

Thanks.

Let me put it this way...we have had only 4 days in December where peak gust speeds have been below 50mph. We have had 6 where peak gusts have been over 80mph, and 2 with peak gusts of 99 and 103mph. This wind has not been one or two days up here, it has been the whole month, and that is exceptional even by NW scotland standards. The laugh....jan is our stomiest month normally....lets hope not in 2014!

Stay safe yourselves 

I don't know how you put up with it Martyn, last night down here was enough for me.

It is a lot harder when you lose power and heat like some in the south. Thankfully that has not happened so far, but cabin feaver can be an issue. Just have to get on with it, and most of the time this place is the best to live in. When its bad, its bad, but when it is good (most of the time), its really good 

Takle care, happy christmass folks.

That is to prevent the firefighters striking as planned/recall them apparently

 LLTNP 105m asl 

Fully correct and that is why you live in one of the best places in the world imo.

My lowest pressure was 950mb but has floated around the 952 954 mark for the last day or so.

Also recorded my max rain per hour since i started recording apparently (dont believe it personally) 7.5mm in one hour tonight. (i believe that part, just the never more before bit i dont believe)

 LLTNP 105m asl 

I tend to agree, I love Scotland, and if things go to plan I will be travelling North for a big chunk of the summer.

The aftermath of this storm continues unabated, with Maidstone suffering particularly badly now. All bridges ove the Medway are now reportedly shut, and the only way to cross the river now is by the M20 motorway! Reports of rescues all day today in the west of the county, and now a pub has been cut off with customers inside (mind you, if you have to be cut off, then I guess a pub is the best place to be 😉 ).

Astonishing situation across many parts of Kend, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Dorset to name but a few tonight.

latest flood warnings

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/31618.aspx

Indeed I noticed that one or to cells trying to develope looks quite intense just where we dont need it take care!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_latest_radar.html

Tiny pieces of energy and centre moving from n/w to s/e over the next few hours can see that on the latest fax charts

http://www.weathercharts.org/ukmomslp.htm#t24

Severe flood warnings now reduced to the lower Dorset Stour. Much to my annoyance, the BBC keeps referring to 'Beaulieu' but this is in fact the Beaulieu Trailer Park near Christchurch (nothing to do with Beaulieu in the New Forest) which along with its neighbour, the Iford caravan park, is being evacuated. (and one of the the BBC newsreaders said 'Ilford' in Dorset, too! Bah!)

the latest GFS also pushes the storm a tad south.

Two hours of moderate to very heavy rain here this evening - the parting gift from the huge storm complex, and one we really could have done with rejecting!

Most local streams are now running at a little way above above normal levels, having peaked at record high levels in the early hours of Tuesday (true for both East Mills Stream and Dockens Water in/near Ringwood, for example)

The Avon is a little above normal and, as usual, it will be the longer-term rainfall that matters most as far as the river is concerned. Unfortunately that looks to be rather high in the near future, with the 18z GFS op run bringing 31.5mm by month's end, which would give a month total of 178.5mm, which beats last year (151.2mm) for my wettest recorded December (though that is only since 2005).

Autumn as a whole looks like being about 70mm drier than that of 2012 (and 100mm behind 2009), yet the flooding I've seen has been worse in peak magnitude, and that all comes down to the fact that Monday into Tuesday delivered a staggering 79.2mm, nearly all within a 24 hour period, which blows away my previous record which I believe is near 40mm (too late to bother trawling through my records for that one right now). The major rivers were barely into flood stage while anywhere with small streams having flash responses saw some truly incredible flooding from around the start of Tuesday to sometime in the afternoon/evening. While stream levels have since fallen a great amount, there's still a lot of residual floodwater out there, and most backroads are smeared with mud and strewn with stones - cycling 30 miles through it all yesterday was an experience I won't forget in a hurry!

No surprise that the last time such a vast rainfall event occured here was most likely during that intense storm at the end of October 2002. For whatever reason, the July 2007 event didn't deliver nearly as much (less than 40mm) here - a lucky escape I suppose.