\n The UKHSA have issued a yellow heat health alert for Essex and the wider East of England from 9:00am on May 22 until 5:00pm on May 27.\n<\/p>\n
\n The alert signals a higher risk of impacts on vulnerable people, including increased demand on healthcare services and a greater danger to life.\n<\/p>\n
\n Indoor environments may also become uncomfortably warm for prolonged periods.\n<\/p>\n
\n This comes as Essex has been forecast a period of high temperatures towards the end of the week.\n<\/p>\n
\n Daytime temperatures in Essex are forecast to rise from the high teens into the mid-20s in the coming days, with some areas possibly reaching 27C on Friday.\n<\/p>\n
\n Forecasters, the Met Office have previously said the chances of a heatwave hitting the county have risen.\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesman said: “There is an increasing chance of heatwave thresholds being met across parts of England and Wales from Sunday onward.\n<\/p>\n
\n “On Monday, heatwave thresholds could be met across a wider area, including central southern England and perhaps parts of southwest England and east Wales.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It will likely remain very warm in any event, with fine weather expected to continue into next week.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Chelmsford and Colchester are expected to record the highest temperatures in the county, with readings between 24C and 26C.\n<\/p>\n
\n Coastal locations such as Southend and Westcliff are forecast to remain slightly cooler, hovering in the low 20s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UKHSA have issued a yellow heat health alert for Essex and the wider East of England from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-597402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597402","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=597402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}