{"id":359116,"date":"2026-01-08T15:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359116\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:02:08","slug":"birling-gap-safety-warning-as-storm-goretti-nears-sussex-and-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359116\/","title":{"rendered":"Birling Gap safety warning as Storm Goretti nears Sussex and Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Goretti, the first named storm of the year, received its name from the French meteorology service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The storm is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvgdezxj617o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">likely to undergo &#8220;explosive cyclogenesis&#8221; or &#8220;weather bomb&#8221;<\/a>, which is where central pressure drops to create powerful gusts over a few hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The strongest winds are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4gw0mmd7ljo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">forecast for parts of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met Office said winds would strengthen through Thursday afternoon then &#8220;gradually ease from the west through the early hours of Friday&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It advised people to secure loose items outside their homes and to check road conditions and public transport timetables for potential travel disruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goretti, the first named storm of the year, received its name from the French meteorology service. The storm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-359116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359116","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=359116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}