{"id":682983,"date":"2026-01-08T20:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/682983\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:36:15","slug":"storm-goretti-live-updates-99mph-gusts-as-red-warning-in-force-for-parts-of-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/682983\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Goretti live updates: 99mph gusts as red warning in force for parts of UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We were told to leave work early because of the storm&#8217;published at 16:52 GMT<\/p>\n<p>16:52 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\/00be684a-15cd-4b72-8269-40fc2af67465.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Will Vernon<\/strong><br \/>Reporting from Birmingham<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A sign warns that trains are running on a reduced timetable due to Storm Goretti. An electronic train timetable can be seen in the background\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a0deff2c-f92f-4a71-961f-b8780c783611.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"996\" height=\"683\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I&#8217;m at Birmingham New Street train station, where changes and cancellations are expected after 19:00 due to the storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hoping to avoid disruption, many passengers tell me they\u2019ve changed their travel plans to get earlier trains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chiny, a 39-year-old government worker, is heading home to Leeds a day early to try and beat the weather. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cWe were having a work meeting but it was ended early and everyone was told to go home because of the storm,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">University of Oxford student Kat, 22, was passing through Birmingham on her way home to Leicester and had to get an earlier train after hers was cancelled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cMy mum has offered to pick me up from the station which she normally doesn\u2019t do, so maybe that\u2019s an indicator of the seriousness of it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also at the station today was The Traitors presenter Claudia Winkleman, who was filming an episode of Channel 4\u2019s The Piano, alongside commuters waiting anxiously for news of their cancelled journeys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;We were told to leave work early because of the storm&#8217;published at 16:52 GMT 16:52 GMT Will VernonReporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-682983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115861401507070028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682983","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=682983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}