{"id":340027,"date":"2025-12-28T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340027\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T23:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:20:07","slug":"uk-health-agency-issues-cold-weather-alert-for-norfolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340027\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Health Agency issues cold weather alert for Norfolk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The yellow alert has been issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It means that a forecast spell of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/weather\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cold weather<\/a> could have significant impacts on health and social care services.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There could be a rise in demand for health services and deaths, particularly among over-65s and those with health conditions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>A map of the alerts currently in place (Image: UKHSA)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The alert came into force at 8pm on Sunday, December 28, and will remain in place until midday on January 5.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to the Met Office, the temperature will sit between 3C and 6C in Norfolk for most of this week &#8211; although there will be lows of 1C overnight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It will mostly be dry, apart from the odd shower, and the coast will be particularly blustery on Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  From January 2 to 11, &#8220;wintry showers&#8221; &#8211; including snow &#8211; will start to move south of Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The yellow alert has been issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). It means that a forecast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-340027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340027","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=340027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}