{"id":214592,"date":"2025-10-21T03:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214592\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T03:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:37:10","slug":"geelong-cup-suddenly-under-threat-due-to-savage-weather-and-high-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214592\/","title":{"rendered":"Geelong Cup suddenly under threat due to savage weather and high winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Wednesday\u2019s <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/sport\/horse-racing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Geelong Cup<\/a> is suddenly under threat due to wild winds that could roar around the course at 130 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The city of Geelong has a holiday for the famous race, which is often considered as a sneaky form guide for the Melbourne Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">But there now concerns about the weather after BOM issued a \u201csevere weather warning\u201d for several parts of Victoria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-178igh4-StyledParagraph e1s06mna1\">Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a class=\"css-cvgehw-StyledContextualLink e1s06mna0\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/app?utm_source=7NEWS&amp;utm_medium=contextual-link-app&amp;utm_campaign=7news-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download today <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/static\/media\/right-red-arrow.92bca5db.svg\" alt=\"Download today\" height=\"14\" width=\"20\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Racing journalist and form analyst Carl Di Iorio sounded the alarm when seeing the forecast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThe Geelong Cup meeting scheduled for Wednesday may be at risk if the forecast holds true,\u201d he said on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWinds averaging 60-80km\/h with gusts of 100-120km\/h are predicted to develop \u2018over the southern parts of the Central district including Geelong\u2018 \u2026 during the early afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Rains is also a strong chance and thunderstorms could lash the course in the morning, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Bureau of Meteorology, Victoria, issued the \u201cSevere Weather Warning\u201d on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cDamaging winds developing over much of Victoria on Wednesday, with destructive wind gusts possible about the southwest coast from late morning,\u201d BOM said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">People in Central Victoria, East Gippsland, Mallee, South West, Northern Country, North Central, North East, West and South Gippsland and Wimmera Forecast Districts were also warned of \u201clocally destructive winds\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">More to come &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday\u2019s Geelong Cup is suddenly under threat due to wild winds that could roar around the course at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[8029,3004,217,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-214592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-horse-racing","tag-racing","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}