They called it the nightmare before Christmas but – despite yesterday’s encore – it’s not over yet. Further heavy rains are due in the South-West tomorrow night, with yet more strong winds expected on Tuesday, threatening to extend one of the stormiest Yuletides into a tempestuous new year. That would round off a month battered by six big storms, though none as destructive as the bruiser that struck on Monday, the most intense recorded for 127 years. Winds reaching 92mph brought some 200 trees crashing down on railway lines, paralysing services on one of the year’s most important days, while up to two inches of rain in 24 hours caused floods across southern England.

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