Very nasty. Main thing is no one gets hurt. As irritating and inconvinient as it is having to fix roof tiles and chop up trees these things can be put right over time.

Cheers for the link and stay safe everyone.

For football reasons only

good stuff

Looking at the Hilbre wx station is seems as though the worst may have moved across now Martin:

http://cobs.noc.ac.uk/cobs/met/hilbre/getimage.php?code=5&span=1

I imagine wind speeds for West Kirby/Hoylake were similar - top gusts around 85mph on that.

That really is the verge of catastrophe...

I think the worst is over now here, recent gust to 63mph after a peak of 78mph. Hard to tell if the hosue has been damaged on the outside, will get a better look in the morning. A friend says a large tree was uprooted further up the lane and branches fallen from other trees. Other than that nothing else that I know of or injuries.

Behave yerself!

Yes, it's very windy - but we've had worse.

Took me almost 2 hours to get home tonight. Not because driving conditions were difficult, but because of the fe***n arsewitted decision to close off half the region's vital motorway network for rush hour. Quite why the authorities closed the Thelwall Viaduct and Barton Bridge to ALL vehicles is beyond me. Just close the bridges to lorries & larger vans and let cars continue to use them (like they often do on cross-Pennine routes).

Saying that, I despise traffic jams with a passion, so took the back roads route home. But every time I hit one a snarl-up that didn't move within a few minutes, I'd try another route. Ended up going down a potholed road over Chat Moss (probably passed near Kevin Bradshaw's house!!) before hitting another traffic jam back on the main road. Then another. Then another. I reckon if I'd have just crawled westwards along the M62, I'd have cut 15-20 mins off my eventual journey time. If I'd stayed on the A57, probably half an hour.

I'm guessing I'm in the minority for getting insanely angry at traffic jams. I feel homicidal toward all the other *****rs who've dared not stay on the gridlocked main road network, and instead are snarling up MY rat-runs.

Looking at Friday with SE Winds and possible Severe at that i pitty the work

being done in dawlish

As last Friday, the angle of attack and proximity of the low are a bit different to the full-on Atlantic ones like today. This is a bad thing for my location in terms of rainfall and, as you say, the south Devon coast

Media is now entering the "madness phase" of an event - reporting obviously idiotic quotes like "this is an almost unprecidented event"

Quite.

Christ, this country loves a 'crisis'  (or should that be 'molehill')

Incidentally, the Hilton Tower in Manc was humming again tonight   

Windy, but no where near as bad as Boxing Day night and no way comparable to Jan 2005 when we got hit by a sting jet and 90-100mph gusts.

260,000 homes and businesses without power in Eire. A right old mess....

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/200-000-homes-expected-to-be-without-power-overnight-due-to-storm-1.1688660

As of 8pm 147,000 lost power in the UK, 100,000 in Wales.

 Wind seems to be moderating slightly, everything seems to be intact including the garden fences, but I`ll double check in the morning. I`m fairly sure we have never had such strong winds in Cheadle Hulme since we moved here in 1975.

I can tell you, when you are sat in a gale blowing at 100mph or more, it is a major event. That is what some parts of the country have seen today.