Vast majority of take offs are made with reduced thrust (no point using full power and only half the runway – use more of the runway and reduce power, good for engine life).
Certain conditions – contaminated runway, unserviceabilities with aircraft braking systems, and probably in this case, windshear, preclude the use of reduced thrust. I had to use full take off thrust at the weekend (wind was 30 gusting 40!), so I would imagine they were doing the same, hence climbing steeper than usual.
As for the Dash 8, can’t really comment, but the smaller the aircraft, the greater the relative effect of the wind – 747 clearly has more mass and inertia than an Islander! The Shorts 360 had a 35 kt crosswind limit (I seem to remember from a previous lifetime), and it was perfectly controllable in those conditions
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