To ask if you've made any plans ahead of the Storm tonight?

I'm only (only!) going back 15 years. It was the norm to be told to stay/go home, no mention of work. Mid 70s, we were sent home as kids, no work, lots of snow! Was it 82, heck of a lot of snow, I remember digging us out of our street which never saw a snow plough. Great times!

Wind speeds of 101mph recorded at Lands End, many are without power down at that end too.

I know the South West in particular

• "Storm Goretti brings gusts of 99mph to Cornwall as a rare red wind warning in in force for parts of south-west England
• The Met Office warns to expect "flying debris resulting in danger to life" in the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall, with all trains cancelled
• This sort of warning is only issued in the most extreme circumstances

Your "cooo errr Government warning" posted earlier certainly came over as mocking.

However, as of the evening of Thursday, January 8, 2026, there are currently more than 9,500 homes without power in Cornwall due to Storm Goretti. Also over a 1000 homes have lost power in Devon. Hopefully, people will heed warnings and no one will lose their life.

I wasn’t mocking as I know what it can be like here and was fully expecting it to be bad and it is here right now. I had already cancelled what I was going to be doing tonight.

Wind is what is forecast and we now have pretty intense lightning.

Gusts are at 80+ at the moment.

Some news says home counties but as I'm looking I can't see anything at all

Some right twats on here. Some of us are under severe weather warnings.

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I’m in rural north Scotland it is hip deep snow for me. We haven’t been out of the house for days as we live up a long narrow road and can’t clear the snow at the moment. Even if we got the snow off the ice would be treacherous. No post, no deliveries.

Luckily we are well prepared with fuel, food, candles and wine so all is well for a few more days.

I was in Lanzarote with my lovely Mum and my Dad who ironically was a BBC newsreader was trapped in London. Our dog was left at home and was in the house for three days on his own until my Dad finally got home!
We couldn’t get home for another week,so yes a weather warning would have been very useful!
Reading some of the ignorant comments on this thread makes me despair,absolutely nothing wrong preparing for worse case scenario and then all good if the predictions are wrong !

We were warned about that. People are coping now - the OP moved her main shop forward a day, that’s all. No panic buying. Who is scaremongering? I don’t get what’s annoying you.

Back in the day, when it snowed, teachers were told to go to their nearest school as the LEA ran them all. Kids were sent home early in 8 inch snow. (mid 1970s) More people worked nearer home. Fewer cars. More local shops.

No storm up here but it’s icy AF. I broke a glass table earlier and DH found our wheely bin was totally frozen shut when he went to put the bits of it in the bin.

I was meant to be playing darts tonight but the games have all been cancelled because of ice and fog so staying cosy in the house instead.

BBC is reporting 98mph winds.

I’m semi rural West Midlands in an amber warning area for snow. The first flakes starting falling about half an hour ago and it’s settling now. The weather app says it’s 2 degrees but feels like minus 7 and it’s forecast to snow all night. I did pop to the supermarket this morning to pick up an extra loaf of bread and a few bits so that we can hunker down for the next few days but I had a basket’s worth of food - hardly panic buying. I’ll be surprised if the DCs school is open tomorrow, thankfully both me and DH are working from home.

In my area, no snow is expected: just gusty winds overnight and in the morning. I will WFH in the morning if possible, and just go out in the afternoon, as I have balance problems not improved by gusts, But I don;t think half a day reuires an advance shop, and THANK GOD NO SNOW EXPECTED! I realize that where I am (south east England) is less badly affected than some parts of the country.

I'm in an area forecast 15cm of snow, which will be the most we've had since 2010. I'm not too worried about that, but it's forecast 7 degrees by Sunday which is likely to mean localised flooding

A friend lives in Jersey and they have been advised to stay indoors until tomorrow morning.

I'm not sure if it's going to happen for us, weather forecasters can't seem to make up their minds. One minute it's snowing all night, next minute it'll be heavy rain and then back and forth between the two so I suppose it's wait and see.

You could always feel free not to click on a thread that doesn't interest you? As my nan always said, "if you can't say anything nice, then you don't need to say anything at all".

I don't know about Falmouth specifically but a lot of places, shops and pubs etc are just voluntarily closing and encouraging people to stay at home.

how is it - my son says he got an alert on his phone. He may be taking it a bit more seriously. Im in touch with his friend who is down there too, who seems to have taken it on board.
Tonight is not the night to go out on a uni pub crawl

There are already wave watchers here taking risks and putting themselves in danger to get a picture.

Falmouth, Cornwall. Yet, you were the poster mocking the warnings! Red warning is pretty rare, so hopefully too many people won't mock it and take advice instead.

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