Yorkshire has had it hard. Looking back over the models and forecasts, I think that probably the met office were closest to the estimated wind speeds - some of the models such as ECM and Arpege over estimated the wind gusts by around 10mph.
One thing that is clear though, was that none of us seemed to pick up on the sheer amount of rain, torrential doesnt in hind sight seem to have covered it adequately and the met office could have issued some rain warnings.
I should have save the trampoline comments for a separate thread really. I don't want this one to descend into any sort of arguments. I was just feeling a bit cross.
Of course we still have a lot of weather to come this week, over night gales tonight, and well through into Wednesday at least. (I've not looked beyond, I'm knackered!) More rain and also snow as mentioned above.
Don't put power cut kits away yet, in my experience, minor gales after major ones can cause problems as trees just hanging in there lose the will to stay up and there may well be many being held up by power cables.
It's going to feel much colder tomorrow than it has, with temperatures in low single digits in the south to start. Couple with wind and flooded roads it's going to be an unpleasant start to the week for many. (pity me as I have to cycle to the station through minor flooding at dark o'clock tomorrow!)