Bit of an exaggerated rant really. ! Bears no resemblance really to what I said. You're not a million miles away from the West coast of Wales and nor is the SW much different. It was predicted to be bad there but lots of reports from elsewhere are not seeing the high predicted gusts. That is not the same as saying it is not a severe storm where it is a severe storm! Nevertheless, my son-in-law has taken off from Bournemouth Airport this afternoon after expecting 60-70mph gusts and it was more like 30-40 mph. 

Plus it isn't over yet. I just hadn't seen any forecasts saying for here, for example, that it would peak at 54mph gust at 6.00 am and then subside throughout the day and be 17mph right now with 27mph gusts. Maybe it is just the timing is different and it may well be intensifying later. We will see.

What were the highest speeds in your location, Saint? Speaking for my own location, this storm was overblown, but this was always going to be more a UK storm anyway, given that it was really only in its developing stage over us as the lower uppers hadn't quite caught up with the low last night. 

I agree. Stepper point near padstow had gusts of 100mph and 110mph . 

. E.g Met Office peak winds for here were forecast to be 60mph, 55mph max gust. Liverpool forecast 70mph, max gust 58mph. 

Another batch of +50mph from 2am as well. For 5 hours!

You're sheltered one way or another. It's blowing a hoolie out there across the Thames from you, strongest winds of the day so far and not far from a gale - mean in the high 30s, gusting to low 50s. It's going to be a crap night for sleeping due to the noise, and it will carry on all night too.

Here we have around 50mph gusts for the next four hours and then another round from 2am to 7am. It’s coming from a different direction, so maybe a few more trees down compared to normal.

Yup, much the same here - annoying, as this morning both GFS and MetO stayed in the 40s throughout, they've gradually ramped things up during the day.

Tomorrow afternoon can't come soon enough, I really do dislike high winds and doubly so when it goes on for 36 hours or more (as it did in Bert, and as it will in Darragh).

One day hopefully again soon we will get 36hrs of snow. Have played the predictive radar on the MetO app, a stream of showers from NE/E all day tomorrow 🤬

Been gusting over 40 knots here all day here as well. As you suggested in another post, these sort of winds are more of a nuisance factor than being anything of interest.  

I find that winds from the east and north often feels stronger and louder than the anemometer would suggest. I know these are the least common directions for my location, but I'm not sure how that can explain this phenomenon fully.  

I think it’s exactly that. Least common, so when they are strong it’s has a different sound and feel in the house 

I'm surprised to hear that Matty - the station at Almondsbury just a few miles down the road from you recorded 62mph which is the highest gust recorded at that station. Mind you I don't know how long the Almondsbury site has been running for.

It's the same experience when outside though. Least common wind directions are often wilder at less speed. 

Horrible gusts and wails around the house. I feel like a ship in a storm .., steady as she goes!

 Just another 12 hours of really strong winds.

Btw

They wasn’t any need to cancel that craft fair this afternoon hardly a breath of wind as I walked down the high street this afternoon, traffic was horrendous as many thought it was still on.

Yes as other have said we stick with what with got for quite a few hours it gets a bit of bore all this noise and always seems to be at night.

https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/maps-and-charts/wind-gusts-map#?model=ukmo-ukv&layer=wind-gust-and-direction&bbox=%5B%5B43.992814500489914,-26.499023437500004%5D,%5B61.39671887310414,18.500976562500004%5D%5D