Low pressure has bottomed out here, dead calm so we're in the centre. 946.1hPa is the low, so not a deep as Christmas Eve, though deep enough.

Nice to have a bit of calm for a change 

Looks like the exceptionally stormy weather (23 days of > 50mph winds) we have seen is finally returning to something much more "normal". Storms in December is par for the course for us, but not the intensity or frequency we have seen this month. Just hope a calmer end to December runs into Jan, which is normally much more stormy for us than December usually is.

4.2mm of rain so far down to 949.6mb

Helen Willets on 5 Live just now saying they are keeping a close eye on this and it could hit the SE later on. If it does it will make the flooding situation much worse.

http://www2.wetter3.de/Fax/bracknell+00.gif 

Today it's still a bit blowy outside but the main winds passed early morning, nowhere near as bad as mondays/tuesday storm here and a lot less rain thank the lord.

Another wild night up here. SSE-ly wind increased through late evening and was raging from about midnight to about 0500 together with heavy driving rain. The biggest surprise of all occurred around 0130 with 3 flashes of lightning and very loud thunder, obviously bouncing around with the wind which was probably gusting 40-50 mph at the time. Not in any way the usual set-up for thunder and it's the first I can recall up here all year!

The wind has dropped right away now but the barometer is presently reading about 952mb.

Off out soon, to provide some help to someone who's just returned home to find his flat was gutted in the fire the other day, and he's lost everything! What a shite thing to come home to eh?!

Alternating between drizzle and light rain.

7.1mm, 949.5mb

Last night's surprise thunder and lightning isn't showing up on most of the detection systems. The only one I could find was an archive at the Iceland Met Office (using Met Office data) and it shows the very limited extent of the lightning up here last night between 00 and 03. No sign of thunderstorms from the synoptic reports at Dyce, Inverbervie and Aboyne overnight. As a matter of interest the 03z ob from Inverbervie was 150 53 gust 70 knots.

http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html

37.6 A66 Old Spittal Farm 09:10

34.5 A592 Kirkstone Pass 11:50

32.4 A499 Y Swan 07:20

31.6 A6 Shap 10:00

31.5 A537 Cat and Fiddle 08:50

31.2 2nd Severn Crossing 01:40

31.1 Limerick Tunnel South 05:10

30.9 A590 Ulverston 06:10

30.9 M6 Shap Summit 10:40

30.7 A66 North Bitts 09:10

30.1 A596 Wigton 05:30

30.1 A68 Tow Law 10:10

30.1 Scalpay Bridge 00:30

Dave

I am in a sheltered location. I have a wind offset that helps, but that compensates more for the poor height of the anemometer than the location itself. Gusts in more exposed parts around here must be at 60-65mph I would guess.

Windiest spell of the winter so far here - but bone dry & sunny!

Latest 12.00 met obs

  Very windy across Wales and the n/w.

 Generally windy more or less everywhere

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/observations/

7,000 in Wales without power

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-25525514

I recorded an all time low pressure here this morning (in the time ive been recording) of 948mb, been holding steady around 949mb for the last 6 hours.  Did drop briefly to 948 again at 10 though.

Never got as much rain overnight as i'd hoped, but still confident of breaking 300mm for the month.

It is raining just now and i am at 289mm for the month. 

Edit - wrt the wind - nothing to write home about here, might pick up a bit later as the low moves away

 LLTNP 105m asl 

Latest update warnings from the met warning now out for the s/w on Monday

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?regionName=uk&from=rss&sn=7E4292B9-4697-19D4-F988-1F3CB8F6DCE7_11_NI&tab=warnings&map=Warnings&zoom=5&lon=-3.50&lat=55.50&fcTime=1388361600

On the pressure, it fell a tiny bit more here, the low was 945.8hPa at 09:10 today. On the rise now, up to the dizzying height of 949.5hPa now 

Seems to be a bit of confusion about this "102mph" reading at Aberdaron earlier:

"I've been chatting to the Met Office, who have been filling me in on the wet and blustery conditions to come later this week, but before I get to that a word on maximum wind speeds. We mentioned earlier that there had been a recorded wind gust of more than 100mph.

That was, the Met Office says, a recording of 102mph at a weather station in Aberdaron, north Wales. However, a spokeswoman says that has yet to be confirmed and technicians are checking the instruments as it is a far higher reading than recorded nearby. The Aberdaron station is at an elevation of 95m, and a nearby station at a more exposed 216m saw a maximum gust of 87mph. So, it might not have been a 100mph storm."

I guess it's an issue with station location and the nature of gust speeds plus the fact the MO apply very strict citeria to their readings, and rightly so. Most of us amateurs can't get close, but spot readings give an idea of intensity at that location. There is a big difference between 87mph and 102mph so something seems a bit strange....especially since the 87 reading was from a "more exposed" location. 

One thing is for sure....87mph is wild enough!