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Airport shuts runway as Storm Goretti hits UK with heavy snow and 99mph winds
Storm Goretti causes over 40,000 power outages and widespread travel disruptions with violent gusts up to 99mph, prompting rare red warnings in parts of the UK and northern France.
- On January 8, 2026 the Met Office issued a rare red warning for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly as Storm Goretti struck with a record 99 mph gust at St Mary's Airport, leaving more than 40,000 properties without power.
- Explosive cyclogenesis — a 'weather bomb' — intensified Storm Goretti rapidly, with a pressure drop of 36 millibars in 24 hours meeting rapid-intensification criteria.
- A two- to three-hour window of `violent gusts` was forecast, with winds expected to increase rapidly from 30-40 mph before easing, the Met Office said.
- Transport operators suspended services, with South Western Railway cancelling seven trains today and Network Rail warning Cornwall trains would halt from 6pm, while Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney airports closed at 6pm disrupting Friday morning travel.
- The Met Office urged people to follow emergency services and local authority guidance, citing Goretti as a multi-hazard event with red warnings indicating risk to life and major disruption.
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The storm Goretti and its violent winds swept through Normandy on the night from Thursday to Friday. EDF decided to reduce the power and then disconnect a classic reactor and the new EPR Flamanville 3. An operation carried out "in accordance with the prescribed procedures" in view of the weather conditions, explains the energy expert. - Storm Goretti: EDF puts the reactor EPR in Flamanville at a stop (Weather and weather).
The United Kingdom and France were hit hardest by the storm.
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Strong winds battered France and Britain as Storm Goretti swept through northern Europe, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes without power, Reuters reports.
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