Bailiwick missed the worst of Storm Isha on Sunday night

The highest gust that hit Guernsey was recorded at 54mph in the very early hours of Monday morning, compared to winds of 99mph in Northumberland.

Although the worst of the winds were in the north of the UK, unusually Storm Isha affected the whole of the UK, with trees uprooted across the country and a house in south east London losing its roof.

The Met Office said that weather would remain unsettled through the week with a series of Atlantic depressions sweeping across the country.

‘During Isha we didn’t quite record a gale which is a mean speed of over 39mph for 10 mins,’ a Guernsey Met spokesman said.

‘Hopefully the weather front approaching will not be as disruptive as the current storm and then it’s looking more settled for the weekend ahead.’

The UK Met Office has named the weather system due on Tuesday as Storm Jocelyn, which will bring further strong winds and rain to Northern Ireland and parts of northern Britain.

The Met Office names any storm that has the potential to cause disruption or damage.

Jocelyn will be the tenth named storm of a season which began in September 2023 with Storm Agnes. If two more are named between now and August, 2023-24 will mark a new record for having the most ‘named’ storms.

Travel to and from the island was widely disrupted, with sea and air routes suffering multiple cancellations.

Yesterday’s sailings of the Channel Chieftain, Condor Islander and Liberation were all cancelled with sailings expected to return to normal today.

The Condor Islander was forced to shelter outside the Isle of Wight overnight before making its way into Portsmouth harbour just after noon yesterday.

It had been due to arrive in Guernsey at 3am this morning.

Aurigny cancelled 10 flights towards the end of the day on Sunday and arranged an extra flight for affected passengers from London Gatwick yesterday afternoon.

Flights had returned to normal yesterday, with only minor delays, however some passengers remained stranded in the UK overnight, with passengers in Southampton whose flights were cancelled on Sunday not being able to be allocated a new return flight yesterday.

An Aurigny spokesman said it was necessary to cancel some flights due to the conditions.

To prepare for the expected disruption it had offered free changes to passengers travelling on the last flights from Manchester, Gatwick, Birmingham and Southampton on Sunday evening.

‘We would like to thank our customers for their patience and understanding. We always do our best to get everyone home and when we cannot due to adverse weather, where possible, we try and book accommodation in the UK for our passengers.’