Very gusty here this morning  with  increasingly heavy showers.  last one left a carpet of hailstones.

Gusting storm force 10 just now, around 58mph with a peak gust of 61mph a little while ago. Average speeds are gale 8, around 43mph. Very mild, 8.5C with a little under 6mm of rain since about 9am.

Almost night-like here... Torrential rain and hail, thunder and lightning on and off for the past couple of hours...  Back garden in Bovingdon (at work so can't see it myself) was carpeted in large white hailstones.   River Gade (in Hemel) has burst at usual places in parkland, but with more to come looking at the radar currently, not to mention rain over coming days, it doesn't look good.

Andrew

Still no agreement regarding tomorrow, with the Met Office predicting rain across the SE clearing east, while NAE has rain further west and clearing NE, while GFS has a notable wave in the front keeping it across the UK for many hours longer as it stalls and pivots.

I must say I wish they'd update or replace NAE with something more accurate especially with regards to convection - the model gives me 1mm for the period 6am-6pm today. I've already had more than 10mm! 

I'm not saying NAE will be wrong about tomorrow though - GFS could be overcooking the wave this time, although it certainly wasn't the Monday before last...

The NAE was replaced A few weeks back on the BBC weather (not sure about the met office but id guess it has) by the 

Euro4 Can view it on http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/ but the pricp charts for it are not working atm 

The wind here today is worse than the xmas storms and the next 'super-low' on Sun/Mon looks pretty bad as well

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn841.png

A touch windier just now. Average speeds severe gale 9 or about 50mph, gusting 60mph with a peak earlier of 65mph. Cooling down.

Shulista, Isle of Skye, Lat: N57:41:20 (57.688757) Lon: W6:19:06 (-6.318203), 40m ASL
Weather readings @ 15:41 on 03-01-2014
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Relative Pressure: 958.0 hPa & rising quickly

Wind (Now): 22.8 m/s (51.0 mph) Force 9, Severe Gale
Gust (Now): 26.9 m/s (60.2 mph)
Wind (Ave today): 14.3 m/s (32.1 mph)
Gust (Max today): 28.9 m/s (64.6 mph) @ 14:42
Wind Direction: WNW - 292.5°

Temp (Now): 7.4°C
Temp (Avg today): 6.7 °C
Temp (Max today): 8.7 °C @ 12:57
Temp (Min today): 5.4 °C @ 08:53
Windchill: 0.6°C
Apparent Temp: -9.8°C
Dew Point: 4.4°C
Relative Humidity: 81%

Rainfall (hour): 0.0 mm
Rainfall (today): 6.6 mm
Rainfall (month): 11.1 mm
Rain Days: 3

another hell of a day here. heavy squally rain and a few flashes of lightning from a storm noew developing and moving inland

Ah, here we go. Getting on for 70mph gusts now with wind speeds getting on for 60mph.

Shulista, Isle of Skye, Lat: N57:41:20 (57.688757) Lon: W6:19:06 (-6.318203), 40m ASL
Weather readings @ 15:42 on 03-01-2014
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Relative Pressure: 958.0 hPa & rising quickly

Wind (Now): 25.8 m/s (57.7 mph) Force 10, Storm
Gust (Now): 30.9 m/s (69.1 mph)
Wind (Ave today): 14.3 m/s (32.1 mph)
Gust (Max today): 30.9 m/s (69.1 mph) @ 15:42
Wind Direction: SW - 225.0°

Some scary looking storms moving into east kent in the next moments...

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

Edit - have just spent an hour or so securing roof slates and gate which was wrenched off its hinges by storms over Christmas...

Edit 2 - lights aflickering

Recent flash of lightning, hail and some disturbing rib jabbing gusts.

Steve - are you in Folkestone? an ominous feel here

Lights have been flickering here too. I thought it had gone very dark, but then I realised the sun had set!

Wind not too bad just yet - around 30mph.

More thunder and lightning here Squally and violent.

Looking at the current track, I think we might just miss the worst of this one in Thanet - I suspect Deal/Sandwich might cop it though. The band following, looks to be more of a direct hit for us, but without the brighter echoes....so far!

Recent gust of 79mph at Mumbles, with 55mph sustained!