{"id":597497,"date":"2026-05-22T06:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597497\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T06:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:04:11","slug":"uk-weather-extraordinary-heat-health-alerts-to-come-into-place-as-record-may-temperature-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597497\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Weather: &#8216;Extraordinary&#8217; heat health alerts to come into place as record May temperature possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For many parts of England and Wales, the temperature will rise into the mid- to high-20s over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Locally in the south Midlands and south-east England, it could hit 30C by Sunday, which would be relatively rare for May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is also increasing confidence that the maximum temperature could reach 33C on bank holiday Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This would exceed the current highest recorded May temperature of 32.8C, set in 1944.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This also happened to be on the Late May Bank Holiday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;re also expecting many parts of England to go into an official heatwave, during which the temperature exceeds 26-28C &#8211; depending on exact location &#8211; for three consecutive days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While it won&#8217;t be as hot in Scotland and Northern Ireland, with no heatwave expected, it will still feel warm over the coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cloudier skies are likely to keep temperatures at around the low 20s at best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, there&#8217;ll be a lot of sunshine &#8211; though there is a risk of a heavy shower or even thunderstorm in south-east England on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For many parts of England and Wales, the temperature will rise into the mid- to high-20s over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-597497","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\/597497","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=597497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}