Yes some shelter here and local wind measurements are notoriously inaccurate but my friend's in Corringham, low lying in the Estuary and he hasn't beaten his 54mph gust of 6.00 am. We've already had a 64 mph earlier this year. Windy, here, but not blowing the bins around or causing any damage or branches down. Of course other places are worse but if you look at XC weather the red zone is still where it was predicted, the far West near to coasts.

Police take 'about 100' storm-related calls

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y8873p4elo 

Hope London can take the sting out of it for us down here. Historically a NW or N gale tends to do less damage than a SWerly because I have tree cover, (as long as those trees dont fall on the house of course!)

And there's another 8 hours of this dross, and even then it's going to still be in the 40s for the rest of the day.

It may not have been ferociously strong (thank goodness), but it's gone on for bloomin' ages. I'd much prefer a traditional short sharp blow than one that goes on for a couple of days!

This all happened in the space of an hour 3-4pm  when gusts increased to 60-70mph. Prior to this it was fairly standard gale in North Herefordshire. 

Family in Pembrokeshire have not had power for 24 hours and major damage there after 10 hours of 80mph+ gusts.

Has Storm Darragh not got a lot of mussel?

It's going to be another day before the wind is due to drop below gale force. I can't see our ship getting in on Tuesday with our weekly fresh food from Poole. Wind is due to swing around to the NE which is the worst direction for our harbour. 

I see all our flights have been cancelled for the second day on the trot.

That would tie in with our violent storm gusts last night that took down neighbours fence and goodness knows what else. They have the joy of paying for it. What a Christmas present. They are away this weekend.

Hope your relief vessel from Poole gets through soon. It's not this one is it ?

https://www.alderneyshipping.com/the-seas-our-fleet/ 

Yes, that's the one, the Mv. Trinity. It will be above limits for using the crane to get the containers off, plus fairly hairy alongside with the sea conditions.

I've just been outside now it's proper light. A few big branches down. The biggest casualty my old apple tree, estimated to be about 60-70 years old, two branches about 5 inches in diameter are down. 

We don't bother with fence panels locally, a waste of time, effort and money with our weather. 

It was pretty bad overnight, as we're pretty much between Market Deeping and Holbeach. The wind managed to move our pot belly Chiminea up the garden, which is quite the feat as it's got a grated middle so the wind doesn't usually bother it and several of my potted plants got turned about. There's also some limbs come down off the tree's on the green and one of neighbours now has very damaged Christmas lights, which aren't very big and quite close to the ground in any case, so that's pretty surprising. Just goes to show how nasty the wind was last night. I'm now waiting for my husband to get back from Peterborough station (dropping the eldest off) and his report of how it is out there, presuming that they got to the station in the first place.

My weather station thermometer has also been damaged so I am hoping that can be fixed so I can get readings again but that is going to have to wait until it's a bit drier. This has been a nasty storm indeed.

Feels a bit like we dodged a bullet given a slight tweak to the track could have nudged winds up another 10-15mph for here. 

Hopefully those in the areas who copped the worst are doing okay and no major damage done. 

My location is on the southern side of the Blackwater river valley, so it's probably more sheltered from a southerly wind than a northerly one.

If all this was straight southerly all the way then it'd be a different story. 

Sorry to hear that

If this happened in the SE I'm sure it would be the main news item on TV channels instead of Syria

Yes, indeed, as it was in '87.  There would have been a lot more people killed if it had hit a population of 15 million. Not that makes the tragic deaths of those affected any less sad. We escaped the worst of it this time round, thankfully.

My son-in-law was very lucky I think then to fly out of Bournemouth late yesterday afternoon with no delays!

The Met Office did well with its warnings and just as well it issued a "red" for the most westerly areas as there may have been more loss of life. Although over this side there were no or few 60-70mph gusts as predicted it wouldn't have taken much more, so better to be safe than sorry on this one.

Indeed he was. Hope he got to wherever he was going too.

It was after dark for a few hours when the pot howler really got going. Blessings in disguise and all that, as I get to see a new fence in due course. It's a feather edge one which is perhaps better than panels. Panels tend to blow away in lesser winds. I have to re landscape my part though which an opportunity to create something better.

My WX station is too exposed to count rain properly when its windy and says storm total (it still hasn't really stopped) of about 40mm but a more sheltered one nearby is on 53mm.

No damage anyway other than modest sized branches ripped off and blown for yards. This is surprising as we are exposed to the north and there has often been serious stuff ripped off in the past during similar events - not least November 2022 when part of the cow shed roof came off. It has been entirely renewed after that because the debris caused significant damage across the whole area of it. 

.... Just back. Diabolical! No other humans out and about.