{"id":751822,"date":"2026-06-21T15:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751822\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T15:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:50:13","slug":"sun-rises-on-longest-day-in-the-uk-as-solstice-is-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751822\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun rises on longest day in the UK as solstice is celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All eyes on the weatherpublished at 10:25 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:25 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A weather map showing the hot weather temperatures across the UK.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d8cf16f2-1779-4638-82af-97965110ac09.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1496\" height=\"841\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All eyes have been on the sun this morning as people celebrate the UK&#8217;s longest day &#8211;  but what is the weather set to do this week?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Well the Met Office has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/weather\/articles\/cp8lye61jk6o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expanded its amber heat warning<\/a> for Monday and Tuesday, with forecasts suggesting temperatures could climb to 36 or 37 (97-99F) in parts of the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An amber warning means there are likely to be widespread impacts on people and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some locations could see temperatures above 30C (86F) for six or seven consecutive days, with overnight temperatures remaining above 20C (68F) in places.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hot weather, which is likely to become a heatwave, is expected to begin today, especially in the south and east of the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All eyes on the weatherpublished at 10:25 BST 10:25 BST All eyes have been on the sun this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-751822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}