Well, Sunday's storm was pretty fierce.

At its peak, winds reached violent storm force 11 on the Mumbles near Swansea on Sunday morning with a gust of 97 miles per hour.

The Mumbles is prone to strong winds, sticking out as it does into Swansea Bay.

Many trees were brought down by the storms

Mind you inland it was also very windy.

At Hawarden in Flintshire a gust of 58 miles per hour was recorded and in Cardiff winds of 71 miles per hour.

It is the sudden gusts that cause the damage to buildings and bring down trees and branches.

Of course, many trees are still in leaf and that means a greater surface area for the wind to hit, so branches are more likely to snap.

The storm was by no means unusual for this time of year.

In terms of wind speed, it was the biggest storm since late October 2000 when Mumbles reported a gust of 97 mph.

That same year, on 13 December, high winds brought down scaffolding on the old AA building in Cardiff city centre.

A few years earlier on Christmas Eve in 1997, north and west Wales was battered by winds storms force winds reaching 110 mph at Aberdaron on the Lleyn Peninsula.

However, the strongest gust of all measured at a low level site was on this day in 1989.

That was 124 mph at Cardiff International Airport .

Drier weather

Thankfully, the weekend's damaging winds have moved away, but there is more heavy rain on the way.

The ground is already saturated in places as there has been plenty of rain recently, especially in the mountains.

Over the weekend 74 mm of rain was recorded at Capel Curig in Snowdonia and 64 mm at Lake Vyrnwy in northern Powys with the Environment Agency issuing flood warnings.

Drier weather on Monday has meant that river levels have been falling but we're not out of the woods yet.

More heavy rain is expected on Monday night and Tuesday and that brings the risk of further localised flooding.

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