On 03/01/2012 09:06, Alex Stephens wrote:

Top 10 minute mean wind speed at my site is 63mph, and highest gust so
far is an astounding 104mph. At least 3 other gusts over 90mph, and
regularly over 80mph.
There will undoubtedly be no end of damage. Surprised we still have a
roof! Many slates ripped off roofs in my street, and a report from a
friend in Motherwell of a street of houses with at least 2 gable ends
down.
Ongoing.

Indeed the lowlands got a right battering! 105mph recorded at the
(bottom of) the TV Mast at Salsburgh (not far from you Alex?)...

J.