{"id":686673,"date":"2026-01-10T11:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686673\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T11:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:59:14","slug":"1-dead-in-uk-100000-french-homes-without-power-as-storms-batter-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686673\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead in UK, 100,000 French homes without power as storms batter Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A man was killed after a tree fell on a caravan in England after record winds brought by Storm Goretti, as 100,000 homes in France were still without power on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Some 15 people have died in weather-related accidents this week across Europe as gale-force winds and storms caused travel mayhem, shut schools, and cut power to hundreds of thousands in freezing temperatures.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The storm barrelled through southwestern Cornwall and parts of Wales overnight Thursday to Friday, with gusts of up to 160km per hour (100 miles per hour) downing trees and leaving tens of thousands of homes without power.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A highway maintenance vehicle drives on the A9 road, as a crashed vehicle lies on its side near Aviemore on Friday, with Scotland in the grip of a deep freeze following Storm Goretti. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/78ac2c79-3e6c-4881-849c-93bf09c26733_1126e908.jpg\" title=\"A highway maintenance vehicle drives on the A9 road, as a crashed vehicle lies on its side near Aviemore on Friday, with Scotland in the grip of a deep freeze following Storm Goretti. Photo: Reuters\"\/>A highway maintenance vehicle drives on the A9 road, as a crashed vehicle lies on its side near Aviemore on Friday, with Scotland in the grip of a deep freeze following Storm Goretti. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">UK police said a man was found dead in the town of Helston in Cornwall on Friday after a tree fell onto a caravan.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cTragically, a man aged in his 50s was located deceased within the caravan,\u201d Devon and Cornwall police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Most of the United Kingdom remained under a weather warning for snow and ice on Saturday, the Met Office national weather agency said, warning that black ice could cause \u201cdisruption\u201d in Scotland and northern England.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Heavy snowfall followed by the storm meant that some 250 schools in Scotland were closed for much of the first week back after the Christmas break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed after a tree fell on a caravan in England after record winds brought by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[1476,2574,748,35745,49075,5023,54004,1473,163010,393,299,36,1824,4884,32523,207661,1142,44838,1144,207662,712,206630,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-686673","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-amsterdam","11":"tag-berlin","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-christmas","14":"tag-copenhagen","15":"tag-cornwall","16":"tag-deutsche-bahn","17":"tag-devon","18":"tag-elli","19":"tag-england","20":"tag-europe","21":"tag-france","22":"tag-germany","23":"tag-great-britain","24":"tag-hamburg","25":"tag-helston","26":"tag-met-office","27":"tag-national-grid","28":"tag-northern-ireland","29":"tag-ruhr","30":"tag-scotland","31":"tag-storm-goretti","32":"tag-uk","33":"tag-united-kingdom","34":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115870693078389569","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686673","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=686673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}