A deep area of low pressure - fuelled by a powerful jet stream high above the Atlantic - is set to bring very strong winds with gales in places to the UK.

But he said the wind speed gauge used was 250 metres lower and in an area that was more protected from gales.

Coastal areas of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent could also feel “near gale force” winds, he added.

The National Weather Service has issued a gale warning and high surf advisory across the coast in Northern California, calling the ocean conditions hazardous, especially for inexperienced mariners and those operating small vessels.

The problem is that Ronan is also forging her compelling warts-and-all portrait of obliteration and recovery in another type of gale storm, that of undisciplined filmmaking at odds with the patient harvesting of characterization.