it gives you a good idea of the _ ilfracombe. it gives you a good idea of the wind — ilfracombe. whip them up but not yet. it isn't all about wind, we have got quite a bit of snow across parts of scotland at the moment which will have an impact on your travel plans this morning. we were expecting it a bit further north the snow yesterday but it has arrived. the winds are starting to pick up, nowhere near the peakjust yet but gusting around some parts of wales, and we could get them as high as 90 miles an hour through the morning investing areas. —— in western areas. this is the storm, you can see this massive swell of cloud, the hook is the tell—tale sign of the severity of the storm. it will work its way west this morning, the stronger winds will transfer eastwards through the day. around the central and low, not much wind. there are read weather warnings in london in the south—east and the south—west, and numerous flood warnings including severe warnings in the upper bristol channel. and an amber warning for most of the uk. strong winds are transferring west to east, so even if

that's the wall obviously specifically designed to protect the harbour in ilfracombe.scourage. to try to discourage people from coming down and getting too close. because of course, it look spectacular and one can imagine that it's water that's swirling over, but that water can contain sand, it can contain pebbles, and that's the kind of thing that emergency services are concerned about. the coast guard were on patrol here this morning, persuading people to keep back a safe distance from the coast. you can see some of the sea spray just starting to swirl around now and probably some rain built into it. a lot of the noise that you can hear, i'll just show you, is from these boats here that have been taken out of the water. it's a standard procedure to get them out of the water, but you can hear the wind just ripping through the masts and the rigging on those yachts. thank heavens they're not in the water. can you imagine? they'd be bobbing around like corks in a jacuzzi, such is the swell, such is the strength in the sea today. it's been a constant stream, as i say, of

—— dan, busy day. ll ground in ilfracombe, what was it like?erty fires, road traffic collisions, but also then unsafe structures of power cables down, trees falling down, so quite a large amount of those, unfortunately. l quite a large amount of those, unfortunately.— quite a large amount of those, unfortunately. i suppose the call centre is extremely _ unfortunately. i suppose the call centre is extremely busy - unfortunately. i suppose the call centre is extremely busy and i unfortunately. i suppose the call| centre is extremely busy and had unfortunately. i suppose the call i centre is extremely busy and had to prioritise. when you have that volume of calls, how do you do it? fire control did a fantasticjob, as they always do and we lean on our partners, so other fire and rescue services took some of our calls when we were in that search period, but then we put in place separate control areas in at different points in different locations, one in plymouth, north devon and somerset and the calls go directly to the officers on the ground there

. - let's get more on storm eunice and joining us in ilfracombe is ben benjee, a fisherman who also servesyou are clearly on a boat, is it a lifeboat or fishing boat? it is my fishin: lifeboat or fishing boat? it is my fishing boat- _ lifeboat or fishing boat? it is my fishing boat. what _ lifeboat or fishing boat? it is my fishing boat. what is _ lifeboat or fishing boat? it is my fishing boat. what is it - lifeboat or fishing boat? it is my fishing boat. what is it like - lifeboat or fishing boat? it is my i fishing boat. what is it like there? it is not fishing boat. what is it like there? it is not too _ fishing boat. what is it like there? it is not too bad, _ fishing boat. what is it like there? it is not too bad, the _ fishing boat. what is it like there? it is not too bad, the tide - fishing boat. what is it like there? it is not too bad, the tide has - fishing boat. what is it like there? | it is not too bad, the tide has gone out, we have lost the scroll from the harbour but when the time comes in later, we will see a bit of carnage. in later, we will see a bit of carnage-— in la