Overview
- Météo-France places La Manche under vigilance rouge from 21:00 to 03:00, with gusts expected at 150–160 km/h on the coast and 130–140 km/h inland.
- Nearly 29 departments across the northwest, including Île-de-France, shift to vigilance orange, with 100–120 km/h inland gusts and 90–100 km/h in the Paris region.
- The maritime prefecture warns of a very strong to very high sea state with breakers and waves over 10 meters, and orange wave-submersion alerts extend to Calvados, Seine-Maritime, the Somme and neighboring coasts.
- La Manche closes schools on Friday and urges people to avoid travel; SNCF suspends trains in Normandy from 22:00 and reduces or interrupts services in Brittany and the Hauts-de-France.
- Forecasters describe Goretti as a rapidly deepening depression or “bomb cyclone” on a slightly more southerly track, with the core crossing the Channel overnight before moving toward the Low Countries after impacting the UK.