{"id":679454,"date":"2026-07-08T00:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T00:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679454\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T00:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T00:35:10","slug":"expert-warns-of-tropical-nights-amid-amber-west-country-heat-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679454\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert warns of tropical nights amid amber West Country heat alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thornton said: &#8220;In the last heatwave many of us not only struggled with the record-breaking daytime temperatures, but also with sleep-disrupting heat at night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the West we saw a run of four tropical nights, where temperatures don&#8217;t fall below 20C (68F), combined with high humidity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have the potential to see one or two tropical nights again later this week, most likely on Thursday and Friday nights, but overall, this heatwave is not quite as warm by night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Crucially, it&#8217;s also nowhere near as humid, so you should be able to cool down more easily,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thornton said the heatwave is likely to last longer than those experienced in May and June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thornton said: &#8220;In the last heatwave many of us not only struggled with the record-breaking daytime temperatures, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-679454","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\/679454","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=679454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}