Got into bed at 10.30 pm, fell straight away to sleep. Alarm clock woke me up as normal at 6.30 am - wind had fallen dead calm by then.





However, going by what I've read on facbook/twatter, it seems that the squall line did pack a punch as it passed over us here at Folkestone at around 5.30 am but otherwise everything seems largely intact - probably because there aren't anything left to get broken as our climate seem to be more akin to the Falkland Islands  Mind you, there is that distinctive scent of brine in the air, always get that after a wind storm.
  It is still cloudy and raining, my rain gauge had picked up 12.0 mm since the last reset at 9 pm last night. I reckon I could add another couple of mm to it due to the sheltered location of my gauge (I only have a small east-facing back yard).

The Telegraph are reporting this morning that a gust of 101mph was recorded at Great Dunsell in Cumbria....I'm guessing they mean Great Dun Fell! And seeing as it's exposed and nearly 3000 ft up it's not a big surprise really is it? The Telegraph, with their Live feed of 'Cyclone Storm Rachel', is fast becoming the Daily Express in terms of its weather reporting. Sorry, the reporting of weather at the moment is getting me all wound up including the references to mini tornado's.

I'm confused and happy to be corrected? BBC are also reporting a Great Dunsell weather station recording a 101mph gust? So does it exist and am I wrong?!

Felt wilder in edinburgh than it did last friday :-(

don't know whether the wind direction makes a difference. SSW in my neck of the woods means the wind is coming straight down from the pentlands, it's quite a jaunty little drop of about 1200ft in just over a mile and a half. Last week it was a straight westerly.

The winds never got particularly hairy here, but the rain was torrential for a time. Love hearing it battering on the window when I'm snuggled up in bed.

We didn't do too badly in this area.  We had very little rain overnight and no obvious wind damage.  It's less windy this morning.

Great Dunsell... I don't believe this exists. It does not appear on the OS map, and is not a location the met office seem to be aware of themselves. It seems likely its a typo (intended to be Great Dun Fell). But if so, its interesting that the mistake has been copied by the BBC, Telegraph and various other weather sites (excluding the met office). Some news agencies even cite the met office for the 101mph Great Dunsell record. Assuming the above is true, they would appear to have made a mistake insofar as the source of this information is concerned:

Telegraph: "The Met Office has revealed that winds of 101mph were reported in Great Dunsell, Cumbria"

Who's copying who? Surely the likes of BBC, telegraph etc. would verify the source and accuracy of information before publishing it in a national / front page story?

So far...

Little rain last night and the wind simply hasn't been a factor. Due to increase later, but to date a non-event.

I think they mean Great Dun Fell . I think Aonach Mor at 111 mph was the highest mainland gust.

Sub-editors/fact checkers (of which I am one) are a dying breed. We're too expensive and time-consuming, and it's better to be fast than accurate these days, apparently. Because who cares about facts in the internet age?

Not many it seems Rob .

So, can someone explain what the term 'weather' means? :)

"Weather" is an outmoded concept of model watching at T+0

Location is there but seems the actual weather station is called Great Dunsell -  number 03227.

http://www.weather-forecast.com/weather-stations/Great-Dunsell.

Considerable increase in wind speed over the last half an hour or so as the trough moves through. Hilbre weather station (just under 2km off the NW coast of Wirral) recording gusts of 65mph - not exceptional but a decent winter storm nonetheless.

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

After a relative lull in wind speed today, it's now whipped up again.

Just a standard system like we see several of most winters here, thankfully. Not overly windy, although pretty wet.