{"id":652837,"date":"2026-06-22T20:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652837\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T20:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:57:17","slug":"rare-red-weather-warning-and-red-heat-health-alert-for-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652837\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare red weather warning and red heat health alert for region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A rare red weather warning for extreme heat and a red heat health alert have been issued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The red weather warning issued by the Met Office covers a large part of the region, including Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Northamptonshire, from 09:00 BST on Wednesday until 21:00 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, the red heat health alert issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) will cover the whole of the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Met Office deputy chief forecaster Mark Sidaway said its red warnings were reserved for the &#8220;most severe events&#8221;, and temperatures were expected to reach nearly 40C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare red weather warning for extreme heat and a red heat health alert have been issued. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-652837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652837","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=652837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}