Rare Red Warning for Wind Issued for Parts of South West as Storm Goretti Nears

A woman covers her face from the cold as she walks through falling snow in London Aaron Chown/PA

A rare red warning for “dangerous, stormy” winds has been issued by the Met Office for south-west England, with Storm Goretti set to bring 100mph gusts.

The warning, from 4pm until 11pm on Thursday, says “violent gusts” over two to three hours will hit parts of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.