STORM CHASE MODE THROUGH STORM DARRAGH

What a crazy few days it has been heading out in chase mode in the North Devon area.

We had been reporting on this storm since the start of the week sharing the awareness on how serious we expected this to be & I think that was evidently backed up resulting in being a pretty serious storm.

The MetOffice have also done an incredible job in sharing the awareness and severity of this system and our national weather service and its severe weather warnings have been on point!

Here in this compilation video from North Devon, shows destructive violent winds blowing across causing a lot of disruption with trees down across the road, telephone wires down. Large waves were also a popular watch with a huge angry sea hitting the coast.

This followed a MetOffice red warning which followed a message to all devices issued by the UK Government warning members of the public to take care and stay weather aware.

Forecasts predict 70-80mph gusts of wind with a chance of 90mph in localized areas. 96mph gust of wind was recorded in Berry Head and a far wider impact and disruption caused.

A big up to all the teams, services and agencies that are continuing to work around the clock to restore order.

At 8am, 144,858 properties are without power, and the national grid teams have successfully restored 1,254,108 homes and businesses since the beginning of the storm.

As of 7pm, 88,341 properties are without power and we have restored power to 1,406,686 customers.