Was there much snow in the north from last night's storm? 

PS: I was told Storm Fionn was a different system after writing a Buzz post a couple of days ago.

Indeed, I was surprised yesterday afternoon when the MetO rescinded the yellow warning - looks like they brought it back overnight, but a fat lot of good that did!

The main road this morning was an obstacle course due to a mixture of wheelie bins in the road (with contents all over the place) and a couple of small fallen trees necessitating driving on the wrong side of the road. Trains have been cancelled onto the island and slightly further afield there are trees partially blocking the M20 this morning and the A299 is completely blocked. In fact, the local rag says:

"Trees are also obstructing roads in Hatch Lane, Chartham, Westgate Court, Avenue, Canterbury, Shalloak Road, Canterbury, Ronbridge Road, Plaxtol, Istead Rise, Wrotham, New Barn Road, Southfleet, Leeds Road, Sutton Valance, Sandling Lane, Boxley, Bull Lane, Aylesford, Iwade, Sheppey, Church Road, Sittingbourne and Old Ashford Road, Lenham."

Surprisingly the Sheppey Crossing wasn't closed (it's meant to be when mean wind speeds hit 35, which they did for a time earlier) and I decided not to risk it... my little car was being buffeted around enough on the level, let alone 100ft up!

All in all, a noteworthy event down here. Not historic, but certainly out of the ordinary.

(EDIT: And looks like they're finally closing the Sheppey Crossing. Ironic, considering the worst is past us now!)

There was a squeeze in the isobars - not even a low pressure system - that affected western Ireland yesterday which was named by Met Eirran.

Apparently up to just under 7”/17cm in some parts of hillier N England (and possibly the Borders).

And yes Fionn was, as John says, named for the system than impacted Ireland yesterday. This one was not named.

 The strong winds woke me up last night and I'm a good sleeper. Not been outside to inspect the damage yet. WRT the warnings I was also surprised and wondered whether they had disappeared due to an IT glitch. However I was also surprised on Tues night when there was a yellow warning for snow in London and the home counties. 

Travel is chaos this morning and the winds were strongest inland away from hills I've seen in some years. Failure to name this is confusing people.

I think wind won the day on this one.

Something went through here between 5.30 and 6am (sting jet ?) but easily 65-70 mph for a while.

A lot of blue flashing lights on my trip to work this morning. A number of fallen trees observed too. 

Local news here Look East saying Suffolk alone 6000 homes without power and travel chaos for most of region. Certainly the worst storm of the winter in EA. 

All we got from that was a very brief period of very light rain which wasn't even enough to wet the ground.

The only thing that this system did for us was to lead us into yet another night without any sort of frost and now, most of the snow which was around from before has all gone from here.

Indeed that yellow warning for snow was laughable,  it hasn't been the Meto's finest week.

Well that was a lively one!

I was woken up some time after 4am to the sound of the storm pulling and tugging at the house, the wind whistling through all the cracks and crevices around the window frames, internal doors rattling, the letter box flapping and the chimneys booming like huge organ pipes, all punctuated by the odd alarming crash outside as another piece of garden furniture was hurled about.

I haven't done a tour of inspection yet but there's certainly some tidying up to be done outside.

That was certainly the most notable storm here for some years.

This thread can be dedicated to the memory of the unknown storm. It wasn't named by the UKM and has received modest coverage in the media this morning. Had it been named and the excitement ramped up ahead of time perhaps we would be reading more about it? I know some people will logically argue it wasn't an exceptional event. However it hit densely populated parts of the country and has caused significant damage and disruption. 

A scary morning! Probably the third strongest storm of the 25 years we have been here. Hearing the wind slam into our bungalow and shaking it with each gust, while it shrieked outside, was not for the faint-hearted. All roads out of our village were blocked by fallen trees, the top branches of one fell on my car, fortunately just a minor dent. The tree has already been shifted by a fork lift.

Our neighbours have a two storey timber frame farmhouse. When it started visibly swaying, they decamped at 6am to the ground floor. We have no power and there are lines down all over the place. The number of trees down is remarkable, considering they are not in leaf.

It seemed to peak about 6 to 7am and now it is just a bit breezy. Most trees are already cleared (the farmers don’t hang about) but many are still wrapped in fallen power lines and can’t be touched.

[edit] power went off at 6am when max gust was 65mph. There’s a 10% height correction to add to that and the wind did strengthen after power went so I would guess a max of 75 to 80mph. We are in a very exposed location, with 2 miles of flat open fields to our west. I have checked the max gust speed on the unit, which has a battery backup, but I can’t believe what it shows so I must be pressing the wrong buttons. 

It was named by Met Éireann as "Fionn" but for some reason the name was not picked up by UK MetO. The name Fionn does seem to have been widely used by the UK media however.

No that was another storm apparently it was called storm David named by the French met office.  That's from our met office twitter feed.

Hit a wide swathe of the country, too. It wasn't as bad as I'd feared here (strongest winds further south than forecasted?) but still very strong winds, with a particularly squally period from around 1am to 1.30am period.

Yep - by bad.  Just shows how confusing and pointless this can get...

Not your fault at all its a complete farce . 

Well this sort of confusion is just another reason why attempting to name these storms in advance is worse than pointless.

Apparently our storm, unnamed by our Met Office, which appears to have caused significant damage and disruption in East Anglia, is now causing widespread chaos in Germany (according to daughter's friend over there). I wonder what the're calling it.