{"id":600825,"date":"2026-05-24T03:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/600825\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T03:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:14:09","slug":"uk-heatwave-likely-to-be-confirmed-as-record-breaking-temperatures-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/600825\/","title":{"rendered":"UK heatwave likely to be confirmed as record-breaking temperatures forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This all depends on where you live and is based on the &#8220;normal&#8221; climate there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Met Office heatwave criteria sets the temperature for a heatwave at 25C in Scotland, Northern Ireland, much of Wales and northern England. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For many other areas of England, as well as south-east Wales, it is 26 or 27C. In London, most of the home counties and Cambridgeshire, it is 28C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These thresholds must be reached or exceeded on at least three consecutive days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is possible that many areas will officially be classed as being in a heatwave when Sunday&#8217;s temperatures are confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For some areas it is likely to turn into a prolonged heatwave. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This all depends on where you live and is based on the &#8220;normal&#8221; climate there. Met Office heatwave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-600825","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\/600825","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=600825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}