{"id":678245,"date":"2026-07-07T09:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678245\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:32:20","slug":"heat-health-alert-extended-as-norfolk-to-reach-30c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678245\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat-health alert extended as Norfolk to reach 30C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has now extended its yellow alert from midday today, July 4 until Saturday, July 11 at 8pm in Norfolk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was originally due to end at 5pm on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/26244645.new-heat-health-alert-norfolk-ahead-hot-weather\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wednesday.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Met Office has forecasted that Thetford will reach 30C on Monday, while it will be around 29C in Diss and 28C in Norwich.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Those living on the coast can expect slightly cooler weather between 25C to 28C.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>A yellow heat health alert has been issued for Norfolk (Image: Denise Bradley)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The yellow alert means that minor impacts are likely across health and social care services, including increased use of healthcare services by vulnerable people.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  People have also been warned that water-related incidents may increase, including risks from cold water shock and drowning.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It follows the record-breaking temperatures in the county which recorded the hottest June day ever seen in the UK at the end of last month.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/26236530.heatwave-return-norfolk-early-next-week\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lingwood<\/a> near Norwich saw a peak of 37.6C on June 26, the highest temperature recorded in the country for June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has now extended its yellow alert from midday today, July 4 until&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-678245","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\/678245","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=678245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}