Elizabeth Rizzini
BBC Weather

Looking forward for just a moment...

By the time most of us wake up tomorrow to view the effects of tonight's storm, winds will have eased and Isha will have cleared off north-eastwards into the Norwegian Sea.

However, its lasting effects are likely to continue though the morning rush hour, with delays to public transport and fallen debris on roads.

There won't be much respite through the clear-up either.

Blustery showers are expected on Monday, with strong westerly to north-westerly winds from 40-50mph in many areas to gale force across hills and coasts in the north.

On Tuesday the next deep area of low pressure swings through, bringing more strong winds and heavy rain.

The good news: While this system also has the potential to become a named storm, it's not expected to be as severe as Isha.

We've just got through an updated list of the strongest gusts recorded in the UK today. They are:

• Capel Curig, Wales: 90mph
• Loftus, North Yorkshire: 76mph
• Killowen, Northern Ireland: 76mph
• Mumbles, Wales, 75mph
• Emley Moor, West Yorkshire, 75mph
• North Wyke, Devon, 74mph

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We're just hearing that operations at the Sellafield nuclear site have been suspended due to severe weather warnings.

Sellafield is currently used to store the UK's plutonium stockpile and high level radioactive waste, as well as other hazardous materials.

It is also home to a number of old nuclear plants, including redundant power stations and reprocessing facilities that are currently being decommissioned.

The suspension allows the site in Seascale, Cumbria, to be shut down to prepare for the expected worsening weather.

Operations are expected to resume tomorrow and workers have been told to attend work as normal.

In a staff update, external, the government said there were "currently no safety or security issues associated with this issue".

We'll have more information on this in the coming hours.

It's 21:00 GMT and we're three hours into a 12-hour Met Office amber alert for high winds affecting basically the whole of the country. Here's a rundown of what's happened so far:

• Storm Isha has hit across the UK - winds reaching 90mph were recorded in isolated areas of Wales.
• Electricity companies have reported cuts to thousands of homes across the country - including 5,000 in the north-west of England, 2,000 in Wales and several hundred in Cornwall.
• ScotRail cancelled all of its services at 7pm and said they would not resume until after rush hour on Monday.
• Other rail operators cancelled services and Network Rail imposed a 50pmh limit on most still running.
• In London, the last Avanti West Coast service left at 18:15 and only went as far as Wolverhampton.
• Belfast Airport cancelled all flights to Britain shortly before the amber alert came into force at 18:00. Other airports in the north cancelled flights, and many services were delayed.
• Cumbria said it was on standby for a "major incident" and the potential for damage, disruption and flooding.
• Airports in the south-east of England were less severely affected, with Virgin Atlantic saying it had not yet cancelled any services from Heathrow - but landing conditions have been difficult.
• One person has been injured by falling debris in Belfast.

We'll have more updates as we get them as Storm Isha moves across the UK.

We're getting more reports of power cuts across the country, now affecting thousands of homes.

Electricity North West says 5,000 homes are affected in its area of operation. The worst affected area is Barrow-in-Furness. ENW has created an information page, external on where cuts have happened, and when power will likely be restored.BBC Wales reports that more than 2,000 homes are without power as gusts of 90mph were recorded.

Power cuts are also affecting around 700 homes in south-west England, mostly around Padstow.

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More from across the Irish Sea as Storm Isha wreaks havoc in Ireland.

Severe weather warnings were issued for all of the country's counties, with the National Emergency Co-ordination describing it as a “particularly nasty” storm.

Thousands of power cuts have been logged across the country.

Meanwhile, in Galway a metal clocktower crashed off a bar onto a path below.

Image source, Rhys Struthers

More trouble in Ireland, where more than a hundred flights have been cancelled.

Dublin Airport said the storm was posing "a significant challenge" to air travel.

As of 19:00 (local time) 114 flights have been cancelled with 36 flights diverted.

Speaking to BBC News, Rhys Struthers said he fears not getting home to Edinburgh after his 15:35 Ryanair flight from Dublin Airport was delayed.

"Our gate has been announced but there’s no staff at the gate or aeroplane outside it," said the 23-year-old who had been visiting the Irish capital with his girlfriend.

“I want clarification on whether we are going to get out tonight. We need to know if we need to book a hotel!”

BBC Radio Lancashire

Our reporter Mike Stevens, external is reporting from Morecambe this evening.

He said: "It's horrible - I'm right here on the seafront. Earlier there were gusts of 60mph but that's permanent now... the wind is so, so strong right now.

CCTV footage shows a tree landing on a car in Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, as high winds batter the Scotland.

Iain Garrow, 47, sent in the footage of his daughter's car and said thankfully nobody was harmed.

Brodie Owen
BBC South West

Image source, James Kitto

The Met Office said Storm Isha would affect everyone in the UK. We're starting to see that.

In the south-west of England, a damaged bridge has led to the cancellation of all Great Western Railway services between Exeter and Barnstaple.

Services from London Paddington to Penzance are very slow going - that 50mph speed reduction announced by Network Rail is in effect.

Devon County Council says it's also receiving an increase in calls about trees having fallen down on roads.

Power cuts are also reported, with 700 properties in St Tudy near Padstow the largest.

Electricity North West says it is starting to feel the impact of Storm Isha - more than 700 homes are without power, many in Cumbria.

The county has said it is already on alert to respond to a major incident. We'll keep you updated with how Isha is affecting the area.

Teams from BBC Cumbria, North East and Tees are running their own live page with more local information. You can access it here.

Andrew Rogers
BBC Newsbeat

The announcement at London's Euston train station strongly advised passengers against any travel. But one more Avanti train was heading out and north, and the crowds were adamant they were getting on it.

A queue started to form at number platform 12 about 15 minutes before the 18:15 to Wolverhampton service's platform was due to be announced.

Some passengers said they’d been given a tip this was where to be, others said they were just following the crowd. It was a gamble if they were wrong.

But it was a gamble that paid off as those in the know, as well as those who followed on the off chance, made it on to the train first. And pretty quickly it was standing room only in the crowded aisles.

They’ll be on their feet for a while too - we’ve just been told we’re on a 50mph (80hm/h) speed restriction all the way. That feels very slow.

But at least we’re heading in the right direction, and moving. Any train in a storm.

People further back in the queue told me that some passengers were turned away and didn't make it on at all.

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In Cumbria, which borders Scotland, emergency services say they're on standby for a "major incident".

Cumbria Police say Storm Isha's impact is "already being felt" there.

It adds that multi-agency preparations have been under way for several days - but the response has "now being placed on a higher official footing to ensure public safety".

A number of flood alerts are already in place in Cumbria, with the Sands area at Appleby "of particular concern" later tonight, the force says.

• Read more about how Storm Isha could affect the northern county here

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Esyllt Carr
Business reporter

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Long distance services from London's Euston station have been hit hard by the effects of Isha.

As I said earlier, trains were already being cancelled before the Met Office's amber alerts came into force at 18:00.

The last Avanti West Coast train left here at 18:15 - it was only going as far as Wolverhampton after the operator decided this afternoon to end all its services early.

That means there are very limited options for people trying to go further to get to places like Manchester or Glasgow from London

There are still lots of people here at Euston, but there isn't a whole lot anyone can do.

Avanti has said that their tickets can be used on services later in the week. But travel now is very difficult.

While flights are being delayed or cancelled in northern parts of the UK, Storm Isha hasn't had quite the same effects in the south. Landing might be rough, but the planes are still flying.

Virgin Atlantic says all its flights from Heathrow are planned to operate as normal, although it's monitoring the situation and staying in contact with airport authorities.

“We are monitoring adverse weather conditions caused by Storm Isha and currently we plan to operate all flights as scheduled," a spokesman told the BBC.

"The safety and comfort of our customers and crew is our top priority and we ask that anyone travelling checks the status of their flights on virginatlantic.com for the latest information.

A member of the public has been hit by falling debris in Belfast city centre.

Castle Lane was closed at its junction with Royal Avenue because of fallen scaffolding.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland said the pedestrian was treated at the scene by emergency services.

Image source, Dan Goodwin

A mountaineer says he's had a "wild day" in the Scottish Cairngorms this afternoon in "ferociously windy" conditions.

Dan Goodwin from Inverness has been a mountaineering instructor for 20 years and was with a group of Durham University students teaching them "how to travel safely in the winter mountains".

Goodwin says once winds get to 40mph (65kmh) people cannot operate safely in the mountains and key skills include avalanche awareness and knowing when to quit.

Might be a good time.

Elizabeth Rizzini
BBC Weather

The Met Office's amber alerts for high winds are now in effect.

As the low pressure centre associated with Storm Isha continues to push northwards and eastward to the north of the UK, the strongest winds will be on its back edge, on the southern side of the low.

By midnight there some parts of Argyll and Bute in western Scotland, and the coastal areas of Caithness and Sutherland, could see gusts of more than 90mph.

Elsewhere throughout the amber warning area there will be widespread gales with gusts of 60-70mph.

Exposed coasts and hills could see 80mph gusts. By the time most of us wake up tomorrow morning, the worst of the winds will be over but it will still be very blustery with gales for many

Disruption is likely to continue into Monday morning's rush hour.

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More bad news, although probably expected, for people needing to get somewhere in Scotland.

Many ferry services between the Scottish mainland and the inner and outer Hebrides have been cancelled today and tomorrow as a result of the weather.

Sailings to Arran have been cancelled for the rest of today and tomorrow.

Ferries from Oban to Castlebay, in Barra have been cancelled.

The early sailing from Stornoway to Ullapool is also cancelled tomorrow.

More information can be found on the CalMac website., external

There is a slim chance that a tornado could form amid Storm Isha, the Met Office has said.

Forecaster Marco Petagna told the PA news agency: "There is a potential that we could see the odd isolated tornado largely tied in with the squally cold front mainly in western parts of the UK on Sunday evening.

"They can cause some significant damage but often on a very localised scale, they often don't tend to last very long."

We'll have a wider forecast for you from the BBC in an upcoming post.