{"id":334933,"date":"2025-12-25T13:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T13:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/334933\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T13:02:08","slug":"cold-health-alert-and-weather-warnings-issued-for-parts-of-uk-on-christmas-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/334933\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold health alert and weather warnings issued for parts of UK on Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In total, the Met Office warning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cjez8n5p9jxo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">covers 18 of Wales&#8217; 22 council areas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In south-west England, temperatures on Christmas morning were between 1C and 4C (34F and 39F) for most, said BBC Weather&#8217;s Matt Taylor, but it was &#8220;feeling below freezing due to the wind chill&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Winds around coasts and on moors have exceeded 40mph at times, hitting 43mph at Plymouth and 49mph at Liscombe, Exmoor, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Met Office spokesman Oli Claydon said it was &#8220;highly unlikely&#8221; the UK would see a white Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a very dry picture across the UK over the next few days,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although not an official part of the UK, the crown dependency of Jersey experienced snow on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Jersey Met Section said it was only the third time since records began that snow was observed on the island on Christmas Day and the first time since 1970.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In total, the Met Office warning covers 18 of Wales&#8217; 22 council areas. In south-west England, temperatures on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-334933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334933","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=334933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}