In Northumberland, gusts as high as 99 mph (159 km/h) were recorded, and this morning’s travel disruption is expected to persist.
Roads are blocked by uprooted trees, and numerous trains have been canceled.
Up until noon, the UK is under a yellow weather alert from the Met Office, with inland gusts of 50 to 60 mph predicted.
The Met Office warned that damage to houses and buildings, falling trees, power outages, and flying debris should be anticipated. It also stated that gusts of up to 70–80 mph could occur in exposed coastal areas.
99 mph was the fastest gust ever measured at Brizlee Wood in Northumberland.
Hundreds of flights were canceled due to the winds in the UK, and some of the flights that did take off failed to land where they were supposed to.
On Sunday afternoon, an EasyJet flight scheduled to arrive in Bristol from Edinburgh was rerouted to Paris. Many passengers had left their passports at home because the original trip was domestic, and they were stuck in the Charles de Gaulle terminal for the entire night.
Travelers returning home from Tenerife on a Ryanair flight landed at Cologne Bonn airport in Germany after the plane failed to touch down, and a Tui flight from Sharm El Sheikh to Glasgow Airport declared an emergency due to the storm and was diverted to Manchester airport.
