THE GALES ARE HERE!

The weather predictions were spot on! The winds hit in the middle of the night, I guess our strongest gusts have been around 70 mph -but the sustained winds are around 40 mph. Fifteen miles west, on the Bristol Channel the gusts have been up to 90 mph. The photos clockwise from top left: snow in Scotland, a collapsed roof on a town high street, a fallen tree in the centre of London, waves smashing into the coast at Blackpool. Several roads are closed because lorries (semis) have overturned. It is quite warm here, almost shirt sleeve weather, but snowy in northern England and Scotland.