BBC News website readers have been sending in their pictures of storm damage. Derek Powell: "Trees that have fallen in Warrington, Cheshire."

Ali Hosin: "This is a car having been severely damaged by a falling tree following strong winds in Frognal, Hampstead, north west London."

Tim Brown: "Walking the dog on Harrow on the Hill."

Mrs G. Godley: "Of all the things to land on it chose the greenhouse!

Deon Cotgrove: "I took this on my mobile of a large tree crushing a car on Windmill Road, Brentford."

"My main road home was completely cut off by this large old tree, sadly felled by the sheer strength of the stormy winds," says Jools in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.

Seb Cardinal: "Nine cars were crushed in a drive way in Highgate, north London. A man was trapped in the white van and had to be cut out by the fire brigade."

David Fergus: "A tree was blown over onto two vehicles in the car park of a working men's club in Burnley."

Bibhas Roy: "Guess we were lucky - it could have flattened our house."

"This is what you call a speed hump," says Robert Cattaway of Epping Green, Essex, who sent in this image of yet another tree felled by the winds.