{"id":679637,"date":"2026-07-08T02:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679637\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T02:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:57:14","slug":"uk-weather-amber-heat-health-alerts-in-effect-as-heatwave-conditions-continue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679637\/","title":{"rendered":"UK weather: Amber heat health alerts in effect as heatwave conditions continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parts of the south and east officially entered a heatwave on Monday, after three days at or above their threshold temperatures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heatwave criteria were met more widely on Tuesday as temperatures peaked at 32.4C  in both Teddington, Richmond upon Thames, and also in Frittenden, Kent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More locations could reach 34C or 35C in the coming days, with the hot spot likely to be in southern England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heat will continue to build and extend north and west into Northern Ireland and Scotland until Friday. Here the peak is expected in the high 20s Celsius.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As high pressure shifts towards the end of the week, an easterly wind will pick up and cool down eastern areas of the UK. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The focus of the heat will then be further west, across central southern England in particular. South Wales could also see highs of 33C on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parts of the south and east officially entered a heatwave on Monday, after three days at or above&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-679637","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\/679637","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=679637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}