St Jude storm as photographed by GuardianWitness readers

Storm photography has become a recognisable genre, with its own conventions: spray battering sea walls, cars crumpled by huge trees like crushed tin cans. No matter how many times you see images like these (sent in by our readers via GuardianWitness) and no matter that St Jude's storm was advertised in advance, they still shock. Here are some of the most striking ones you sent us.

The storm approaches: Hastings on Sunday evening   Photograph: Adam Regan



A tree on a car in Camden Square, London   Photograph: Anne Clements

Boats toppled by the wind lie piled up against a fence near Tendring in Essex     Photograph: virtualcolm

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