{"id":677684,"date":"2026-01-06T12:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677684\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:42:11","slug":"snow-and-ice-leads-to-school-closures-and-travel-problems-after-uks-coldest-night-of-winter-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677684\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow and ice leads to school closures and travel problems after UK&#8217;s coldest night of winter &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goretti to bring strong winds and possibly 20cm of snowpublished at 11:48 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:48 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-kkut0v-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/df379a62-333c-47c7-8bee-2b08d4b43c3a.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Simon King<\/strong><br \/>Presenter and meteorologist, BBC Weather<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Storm Goretti was named by Meteo-France due to the most severe<br \/>\nimpact of strong winds being felt in northern France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, it will also bring strong winds and some significant<br \/>\nsnowfall to parts of England and Wales on Thursday night and Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Met Office yellow warning for wind has been issued for<br \/>\nsouth-west England from Thursday 15:00 GMT to 23:59. Gusts of 50-60mph are likely with occasional gusts up to 70mph on<br \/>\nexposed coasts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Later on Thursday evening, as Storm Goretti passes along the<br \/>\nEnglish Channel, heavy rain will spread up from the south and as it meets the<br \/>\ncolder air we\u2019ve had in place across the UK this week, it\u2019ll turn to snow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While there are still some uncertainties in the detail of the<br \/>\nforecast being a few days away, the most likely situation is that a spell of<br \/>\nheavy snow will initially develop over the hills of south Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rain will then turn to snow more widely over parts of England and<br \/>\nWales during Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A<br \/>\nMet Office yellow warning from 18:00 GMT on Thursday to 12:00 Friday suggests<br \/>\nthat in some areas, 5-10 cm of snow may settle with the potential for up to 20<br \/>\ncm in some locations, especially over higher ground. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Strong<br \/>\nwinds may lead to some drifting of snow before rain<br \/>\nand snow will then clear eastwards during Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goretti to bring strong winds and possibly 20cm of snowpublished at 11:48 GMT 11:48 GMT Simon KingPresenter and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-677684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115848212927664448","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}