Given it's a named storm, that's come 'out of the blue', brought 70mph winds to a large part of the UK, and inflicted damage and travel disruption, I'm surprised it's not had its own thread before now.

If it was hitting the South, it would have had it's own thread before now 

Here it's been very gusty but highest just 46mph at 10:45

It's easing slowly now.

No rain to speak of.

It's 18.4C which is only slightly below the average high of 19C for June here.

Here in Edinburgh, the highest wind gusts so far (as at 1pm this afternoon) from this storm has been 58.4mph from the SW at Edinburgh Gogarbank.

However, we have had very little in the way of rain from this system with a total of 1.4 mm of rain at Edinburgh Gogarbank and just 0.4 mm at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh coming from this system as a result of this system's associated weather fronts moving through last night.

Although this is the first named storm to have occurred during the summer under the current joint UK/Irish system for naming these storms, this does make me think back on other occasions during past summers when it has been really windy (and my memory actually brings back a few more of those occasions than what you would think) and wonder how many of those occasions might have resulted in that being a named storm if the same system had been in place then.

The current UK/Irish system which Storm Hector was named under was after all, only introduced in time for that really stormy winter of 2015/16 and I can remember that just before then, there was an entire day's play lost in the Open Golf Championships at St. Andrew's during the summer of 2015 which was considered to be a real shame then, since that was an otherwise sunny day but that is just example of where that could have been a named storm if that system had been introduced by then.

To me, it is only really the fact that named storms are much less common at that this time of year (recent history shows that they most commonly occur during the late autumn and early winter with the period around Christmas being quite a common time for that) and the fact that it was only a few years ago since this system of naming storms was introduced, that it has taken until now, to get our first named storm to have occurred during the summer.

Same story over here John. Recorded just 0.5mm from this system overnight, though over 10mm from the warm front passage yesterday. 

At 1.30pm, after the frontal cloud cleared central and southern England, we were generating:

12.8gw of wind power

7.6gw of solar

0.8gw biomass

7.2gw nuclear

8.1gw gas

I am pretty sure that is a new daily renewables record. Last June we had a peak around 19gw combined, including 2 of biomass.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-44468321

Some effects from the summer storm up north. Here in the Lakes I've seen loads of branches down today and one whole tree

I had just posted that story without realising that you had already done so.

Hopefully, the woman who suffered in that incident will fully recover from that but then, I guess that this probably serves me right for saying in various other threads that nothing very interesting ever happens here in Edinburgh when it comes to our weather.

In terms of rain the front broke up a few miles west of here last night so the ground was barely wet. That still leaves us with just two days of proper rain since the end of April!

I knew that I would come up with something original to post on this thread, so here is another story of the effects of this storm in a part of Edinburgh which isn't all that far either from where I live, or from the botanic gardens where one of my three local weather stations is located.

Flood alerts in Thames estuary and upriver - looks like the tail end of a storm surge from Hector arriving at the area synchronised with an already high spring tide https://www.floodalerts.com/ 

I’m with you there. I understand the logic of naming, but I just find it very irritating. This isn’t the Gulf of Mexico.

Who named it? I thought the naming system only applied in the autumn and winter.

Met Eirann I think.

No surprises there! They don't mess around. Can't help thinking our chaps really need to up their game.