How is Isha treating you?

[sharptoothlemonshark]

London, so the least affected, in theory - but our gates and fences are rattling madly, and a couple of rubbish bins have gone rolling down the road

I'm sure someone smarter than me will come along but it's down to physics and the biological state of the tree. We had one come down near us and my husband- who is a tree surgeon.- could tell that based on the size of the root ball that there was something wrong with the tree. Either root bound or a fungal Infection, this means that despite the height of the tree there wasn't a big enough root mass to anchor it. A car will have a different centre of gravity.

It's wild here in Glasgow- 70mph. I was driving back from the cinema at 945 & my car was all over the place on the 10 min journey. I'm amazed, though, that it's 8 degrees on my bedside clock (outside temp not inside!) as opposed to -8 few days ago!

SE Ireland here. Calmed down a lot since earlier. The wind has been insane

Herefordshire, and I'd say more wet than windy here as well for the last couple of hours. There have been a few reports of trees down in the south of the county

Poor little man...can you not snuggle up next to him in your bed? I'm on the sofa having fallen asleep and just woken up with dog pressed between me and the back of there sofa under a rug..but go to get up and get to bed proper..and turn her out for a wee!
That will probably take 10 mins at the least...
The wind is rampaging about {Bristol area} - it seems to come in sudden gusts.. it's gone quiet now, but a second ago it was noisy...now it's gathering itself again.

The tree's bigger so it catches more wind. And the wind blowing against a tall tree is like a lever arm trying to pull the roots out, cars are much shorter. And the wind is generally stronger higher up (that's one reason why wind turbines are built so big).

Yes this, a different centre of gravity plus aerodynamics of the car. Trees move all the time and over the years their branches can suffer all sorts of damage and they'll only bend for so long until they break, and the whole trees themselves are anchored into the ground, often with shallow roots and in storms the ground itself can become wet and pliable and develop air pockets in them so the trees become less stable.

Air can go over, under and round cars so they face much less blunt force trauma of strong winds than trees.

It can still be quite risky driving though in this sort of wind. I wouldn't want my family out in it in a tin can being blown hither and thither.

Window frames are shaking. Cat just came hurling through the flap like he was shot out of a cannon.

Anyone 8 miles NW of Oxford missing a 4-tier mini greenhouse?

Mad gusts flew it over a 15ft stone wall into our garden. No immediate neighbours own one!

The almighty crash it made, I well and truly thought the end was nigh... 😮

May all of you in the worst-affected places stay safe. Your four-legged friends, as well.

Some of the news clips look wild.

Yep.

They have a yellow wind warning for Isha - but higher winds forecast than Peterhead, with a red wind warning. 60mph gusts (which is forecast here) is unusual here. It's pretty normal in winter there.

I don't want to sound dismissive of the high winds though. Just because 60mph doesn't scare me like it does people that aren't used to it - I know what it's like to be scared by high levels of wind, and I'm aware that I'm just as vulnerable as anyone else in storm Isha, even though it's a wind speed that isn't unusual for me.

I'm 8 hours into my night shift, had a power cut which has caused a lot of problems, lots of flooding as well. No idea how my home and garden are, will find out at 6am when I get home but I'm expecting a couple of fence panels down, my plant pots everywhere, really hope my greenhouse is okay. I secured what I could before I left for work. The river near my house always floods so I'm expecting the road to be inaccessible. Still extremely windy

It’s bad here in the West of Scotland.

I’ve barely slept a wink so far between the wind and the sound of cans blowing down the street.

We are supposed to be having the survey done on our house this week to sell it so the roof better still be in tact. I’m scared to go and look.

He's fine - hes opted to sleep in my daughters room tonight 😊

Having said it was quietening down here, it’s gone crazy again, it’s the huge gusts that are a little disconcerting!

Wirral, can't sleep for the noise outside. Bins chained down anyway to stop the local hoodlums from nicking them, car garaged, hoping that my roof is intact in the morning.

Wiltshire here. Bit of a breeze but nothing like what so many are enduring

Cleethorpes, East coast. Weather tells me wind speed topped out at 40mph gale force at midnight with 62mph gusts.
Weirdly at 230am it all just stopped.
Something doesn't sound right in the garden though.
Weather app tells me it's only 40 mph gusts now thank god as I have a half hour bike ride to work in an hour.

Northumberland, and I’ve been wide awake since 1
Have to drive husband to hospital first thing tomorrow for super important surgery and pretty anxious about the drive as well as the op ☹️

@Myotis hope all goes OK.

London. Gusts are pretty wild, but nothing as bad as others are enduring at the moment. I've woken up because of crash sounds outside. Stay safe everyone.

North Hampshire here. It's been very noisy, the nervous dog has barked on and off all night because of the bangs so I'm shattered. Going to be leaving in about 20 minutes to drive to work, 40 miles down the M3 so hopfully that will be ok. Not looking forward to a twelve hour shift on very little sleep.

North Kent was noisy and lots of our trains are cancelled or delayed. We sleep in a loft conversion and I was genuinely scared at one point! Glad it's over

Weirdly, that's the first night our puppy has slept through. Usually she's up at 3.

Now I know the answer -- play storm noises at her all night!

It was wild here in Cumbria - lots of trees down and some damage but it seems to have calmed massively in the last few hours.

40-50mph gusts all day and for most of the week now.