Gusts are getting louder now

As I am typing it now seems calmer, in comparison.

You won't see that on weatherobs.com because it isn't an hourly reading but this does make that the highest gust there so far.

As I was about to post that though, it was then confirmed by the 13:00 UTC raw BUFR data which does lead to an actual hourly reading on weatherobs.com that the highest gust from that is indeed around 71 mph but even from that, the highest gust so far is actually 71.6 mph and not the 71 mph as repored by weatherobs.com.

Another aspect of these winds is how they are occurring because we keep on getting periods lasting up to possibly around a minute when everything appears to have gone very quiet with the wind completely dying down all of a sudden only for the next massive gust to then come along and that is what is making these winds so dangerous, hence the official red warning.

Recent gusts at Glasgow Airport  and Bishopton have been in the region of 85 mph.

That's a new record for VP2 but only by 3mph.

As I write, the centre of the storm now appears to be over the north of Scotland but it is the fact that we are now on the southern flank of this system which is causing this latest increase in the winds which was well predicted by all of the model output.

Hope all those further North are okay. 

Having said that though, it's now looking as though the Met have probably overcooked their estimates of up to 90 mph as our highest winds for here which they were predicting and that has now been downgraded to around 81 mph within the next hour, but we should never let that take anything away from just how bad this event has turned out to be anyway.

Tad blowy eh. Power outages all over north Cumbria. Lovely Blue sky now. 

In addition to that, it's finally stopped raining and the skies are a lot clearer now with even a bit of sunshine coming through at times just to add insult to injury.

Were it not for these winds, you could therefore say that today would actually be ending on quite a nice note.

I know east of York my cousin's car got damaged by a fence panel blowing down the road.

There are a lot of uprooted trees around Edinburgh as a result of what's happened today and a number of buildings which have had their roofs blown off or at the very least, experienced some form of structural damage.

My Mum down in Hawick has just contacted me to say that the doors on the bunker in her garden were blown off by the wind and Hawick was never even in the red warning area.

This has therefore just been a horrendous event and I can only hope that we don't see anything like that again for a very long time at least (I would even be all too happy to go back to our more familiar boring and uninteresting weather in preference to this).

It's still very windy here as I write but it's nothing like as wild or noisy as it was earlier and we're no longer getting those massive gusts which we were getting earlier on although the highest gust within the last hour was still up to 47 mph from the SW.

That now makes tonight no different from a typical windy night in the heart of winter, so I don't see any need to say any more about this particular event in this part of the world.

However, this thread isn't just about Storm Eowyn and because of that, I will mention that the system which is due to reach us on Sunday night looks interesting because although that isn't expected to be as impactful as Storm Eowyn, some places could still see wind gusts of 50 to 60 mph from that.

It will therefore be interesting to see whether or not that ends up being officially named as Storm Floris which is now the next name on that list after Eowyn.

They also said they’d lost power to several automatic observing sites…which might explain the lack of data atm.

I'm not sure I fully buy that excuse, JNI, as temp, rain etc data is in. The wind data that is in suggests a storm similar to many others in recent years, however, it is mostly data from the west and north that is missing, which may tell a different story. We'll see anyway.