The tornado in Stalybridge damaged 100 homes, sent trees toppling like dominoes and wrote off cars as flying debris caused major structural damage while residents hid under their duvets.
Denise Burrows Devine, 65, and her dog Casper were out when the entire window unit in her front bedroom was blown clean through and crashed onto the carpet in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester.
University students in Nottingham braved the winter night as temperatures plunged to 1C on their final party of the term, with many dressing as santa or elves.
John Gillan, 56, a painter and decorator from Arbroath in Angus, was killed when a tree struck his van on the B9127 at Whigstreet near Forfar last Thursday.
EXCLUSIVE: London or Cambridge could see a peak of 26C during October s Indian summer as a scorching warm front arrives from Europe, a weather expert has said.