© AFPCollapsed crane of the roof of the Cabinet office in London from high winds on October 28, 2013.
A 17-year-old girl died after a tree fell onto the static caravan where she was sleeping in Hever, southeast England, and a man in his 50s died when a tree fell on his car in Watford, north of London, police said.
The rough conditions at sea forced rescuers to suspend the search for a 14-year-old boy who was washed out to sea from a beach in East Sussex on England's south coast on Sunday.
More than 450 people were stranded for several hours on two ferries outside the port of Dover after it was closed to sea traffic, as huge waves lashed the coastline on both sides of the Channel.
At least 100 trees fell across railway lines in the south east, Network Rail said.
The rush hour was chaotic in London after train companies First Capital Connect, C2C, Greater Anglia, Southern and Gatwick Express services cancelled all their early morning services, predicting the first trains would not run until after 9:00 am.
In the heart of London, a crane collapsed on to the roof of the Cabinet Office, causing the closure of Whitehall between Parliament Square and Horse Guards Avenue.
Police said nobody was hurt in that incident.
"Latest figures for customers without power is 270,000 but 30,000 who were previously off have been reconnected since this morning" Energy Networks, representing power distributors, said on its Twitter feed.
"Engineers braving challenging conditions to get people reconnected asap," it said.
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Tracy Elsey, communications manager for UK Power Networks, told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "In our East of England region, which goes from Essex up to the North Norfolk coast, we have seen a huge rise in reported power cuts. We have got 100,000 properties off power in the East."
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) said more than 38,000 customers were left without power in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, while Western Power reported more than 3,800 power cuts in the same areas, Downing Street said.
Police said at least 125 trees were down across roads in Sussex by 6.30am, and Kent Police said at least 70 trees had been blown down across the county.
Transport for London (TfL) said there was disruption to six Underground lines due to debris from the storm on the tracks.
The Bakerloo, Central, Jubilee, Metropolitan, Northern and Piccadilly lines were all partially closed while workers removed fallen trees and other obstructions, a TfL spokesman said.
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London Mayor Boris Johnson will chair an emergency resilience meeting involving all emergency services and relevant agencies later this morning.
The Environment Agency has 137 flood alerts in place across England and Wales, warning people to be prepared, and 13 flood warnings, with 12 in the South West.
Winds of up to 80 mph have been reported, while a gust of 99 mph was recorded by the Met Office at the Isle of Wight at 5 am.
It said the storm has now moved off into the North Sea.
"We expect the most powerful winds and heavy rain associated with the storm to clear eastern areas in the next few hours, after which most parts of the UK will see a bright and breezy day with occasionally heavy, blustery showers," the Met Office said.
The storm has been named St Jude after the patron saint of lost causes, whose feast day is on Monday.
So it was just alarmist scaremongering from the Guardian and the Met Office, who badly need some extreme weather, which they can then unjustly blame on a non-existent global warming.
See the alarmist article from the Guardian that was posted on sott yesterday: [Link]
They should concentrate on preparing people and communities for the global cooling that is happening!