It sounds bad up there. Stay safe guys.

XC Weather illustrates it well. Temperatures dropping in the north now too, 

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/30m/GB/w1386225504.gif

The storm even made headline news on the London radio station I listen to on the way to work.

It looks pretty horrendous up there and the winds reported have already exceeded that St Jude storm that the media was going hyper about a few weeks back. The current gust chart shows quite a few 80+ gusts, with a couple of 100+ so far.

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/current?LANG=en&UP=0&R=310&TYP=windspitzen&ART=tabelle&LANG=en&DATE=1386226800&KEY=UK&LAND=UK&CONT=__&SORT=3&SI=mph&CEL=C&UD=0#

Hearing from home it's quite a storm going on up there, its windy in Birmingham this morning as well and not looking foward to the flight back later this morning!

Power is flickering here but still on. Looks like the worst to come in the next couple of hours here.

Tay Road Bridge closed to all traffic.

Live report feed from the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25227714

Just spoke to family in Sutherland, they report intense thunder & lightning earlier this morning for half an hour.

Father in law works for Highland Council, all crew are out clearing debris and blown down trees, power off in several remote areas.

Here in Skipton, the rain has landed and gusts to 50 mph, i see east of the Pennines winds approaching 70 mph now.

Just had a 66mph which is the highest recorded since 2009.
The radar image looks exactly like the predictions from yesterday (re. rain band/squall line)
Presumably the worst gusts are associated with that so yet to come. 

Just been out to check for damage. The roof has no damage at all, which is great given the re-roofing I did last summer. Had I not done that work we would have had tiles off for sure. Never the less, they were clattering about, and that is with a huge overlap, two nails and a clip!

But we have had minor disruption, some of our trees protective tubes in the garden have been ripped out and a stack of lightweight breeze blocks has been blown over with some smashed. Some of the old tiles from the re-roof have been scatted to the four winds as well. So, some tidying up to do, but nothing serious.

Some power supply disruption this morning on the island, but given speeds it seems very low. Great work from Hydro electric to keep the lights on. Probably trees down and stuff but will see later....

Take care where you still have the gales...it is a bit fierce.

I know we have been here before and this is a controversial topic but i will say it anyway, red warnings are reserved for the south only.

74mph at Church Fenton.

Take care of your self and your families guys hopeful it wont last long and hoping nobody gets hurt.

Scotland on level 2 that is of concern latest from Europe storm centre

A level 2 was issued for Scotland, the central North Sea, Denmark, southern Sweden, eastern Germany, and north-western Poland mainly for severe convective wind gusts.
A level 1 was issued for southern Poland, the Czech Republic, and surroundings mainly for severe convective wind gusts.
SYNOPSIS
Continuing height falls across central and eastern Europe on the one hand and increasing geopotential across the northern Atlantic result in a west-north-westerly flow over most of Europe on Thursday morning. A frontal wave that was located to the south of Iceland on Wednesday 18Z will move south-east and is expected over southern Norway on Thursday, 12Z. Located in a favourably coupled jet streak position, rapid intensification is forecast by latest models and the centre pressure will drop by 40 hPa within 24 hours. A strong winter storm is therefore expected to affect an area from the northern British Isles to the southern Baltic Sea region. Intense cold air advection will be dominant in the wake of the storm. Across southern Europe, subsidence is expected through-out the forecast period.
DISCUSSION
British Isles, North Sea, southern Scandinavia, Germany, Poland, and surroundings
In the morning hours, the North Sea low will move into southern Norway. Its cold front will cross most of the British Isles and the North Sea. Ahead of the cold front, a narrow tongue of boundary-layer moisture with 0-1 km mixing ratio around 5 g/kg will spread from the British Isles to southern Scandinavia. Given moist-adiabatic lapse rates and rather warm sea surface temperatures, weak instability is forecast ahead of the cold front, allowing for a narrow cold frontal rain band with embedded shallow convection. The contribution of deep moist convection to the wind gust occurrence is expected to be weak to the south of the jet core.
From the jet maximum northward, strong DCVA will lead to QG lift and the low-level saturated air mass will become deeper. Thunderstorms are forecast to develop along the cold front from Scotland to the central North Sea until noon. Given very strong vertical wind shear, convection will organize and shallow multicells with linear segments are expected. Especially in the northern portions, rapid movement of these linear segments will result in an increasing surface wind gust threat that warrants a level 2.

http://www.estofex.org/

Gusting 60mph now in Brampton, Cumbria

Great Dun Fell ( top of Pennines) recorded 104mph

At work.

Not a massive ammount of damage to be seen, a tree blocking one carriageway of the A87 at Earlish and lots of debries. A couple of sign posts blown over and the Hydro electric teams working on the lines. A colleague has had a 3ft x 2ft section of roof tiles removed, and trees down in the Dunvegan area as well. 

The sun is out though