“So lie on your back with you head back, with your ears submerged, use your arms and legs to stabilise yourself and just let your breathing come back to a normal breathing pattern. <\/p>\n
“And when you’re feeling confident that you’ve gotten used to the water and your breathing’s normal, you can shout for help or swim to save yourself.”<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the UK recorded the hottest day in May with temperatures reaching 35.1C at Kew Gardens in London.<\/p>\n
For two days in a row, parts of south-east England went above 34C. <\/p>\n
Nearly all weather stations across England and Wales also broke their local May temperature records on Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The Met Office says a heatwave happens when an area reaches a certain high temperature for at least three days in a row.<\/p>\n
Wednesday brings a reprieve from the record-breaking temperatures and has likely peaked, as cooler air moves over northern and eastern areas of England.<\/p>\n
The Met Office has also issued a yellow thunderstorm warning for much of Wales, south-west England and parts of the Midlands from 15:00 to 23:59 on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
It could bring torrential downpours of rain, frequent lightning, large hail and strong, gusty winds.<\/p>\n
But over the next few days it will still remain hot in many areas and health officials confirmed heat health alerts would be extended for 24 hours. <\/p>\n
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said amber alerts for the South West, South East, London, East and West Midlands, and East of England will remain until 17:00 on Thursday, with yellow heat-health alerts for the North West and North East. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“So lie on your back with you head back, with your ears submerged, use your arms and legs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-606757","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\/606757","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=606757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}