{"id":686255,"date":"2026-01-10T07:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686255\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T07:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:28:24","slug":"storm-goretti-met-office-issues-new-snow-warnings-as-weather-bomb-hits-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686255\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Goretti: Met Office issues new snow warnings as ‘weather bomb’ hits UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Storm Goretti continues to batter the UK<\/a>, with Brits across the country facing power cuts, travel disruption and school closures.<\/p>\n

Wild weather brought 99mph winds in places<\/a>, while more than 43,000 properties were left without power in the South West on Friday, according to the National Grid\u2019s website, while more than 14,000 had no power in the West Midlands and Wales.<\/p>\n

Officials in the West Midlands have warned of the \u201cworst snowfall in a decade\u201d <\/a>as parts of England and Wales prepare to be hit with 5-10cm of snow on Friday, and up to 15-25cm in some areas. Birmingham Airport was forced to close its runway<\/a>, while Heathrow announced multiple flight cancellations.<\/p>\n

The storm, named by French weather forecaster Meteo France, has been described as a \u201cmulti-hazard event\u201d by the Met Office, with weather warnings issued for snow, wind, rain and ice across the country, ahead of likely \u201cdisruption and dangerous travelling conditions\u201d.<\/p>\n

Yahoo News has closed its live blog for the day. Read below for a roundup of the day’s events:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Live coverage is over43 updates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Storm Goretti continues to batter the UK, with Brits across the country facing power cuts, travel disruption and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[11949,748,207574,393,395,4884,89769,1144,28174,712,206630,33757,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-686255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-birmingham-airport","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-christopher-furlong","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-getty-images","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-meteo-france","16":"tag-northern-ireland","17":"tag-school-closures","18":"tag-scotland","19":"tag-storm-goretti","20":"tag-travel-disruption","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115869628065136837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686255","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=686255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}