Some of the driest regions of the UK have missed their chances for rain ahead of another heatwave beginning this week.<\/p>\n
Parts of the northern and western UK saw some rainfall over the weekend, with further showers and unsettled conditions expected over the next few days.<\/p>\n
But southern parts of the country – where the least amount of rain has fallen – are set to see temperatures climb once again, with more dry and sunny weather in the forecast.<\/p>\n
It comes as parts of Wales have officially entered drought status, while parts of southern, central and eastern England remain in “prolonged dry weather”, the final stage before drought is declared.<\/p>\n
The coming days will only exacerbate dry conditions as another heatwave is expected to be declared, with temperatures peaking around 35C (95F) in south-east England.<\/p>\n
In advance of the high temperatures, heat health alerts have been issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). <\/p>\n
The south-west, south-east, London, East of England, West and East Midlands and Yorkshire and The Humber are all under the alerts from 9:00 BST on Tuesday 28 July until 9:00 BST on Friday 31 July.<\/p>\n
The UKHSA warns that heat is expected to cause minor impacts for health and social care services, with an increased risk to life for vulnerable people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the driest regions of the UK have missed their chances for rain ahead of another heatwave…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-712751","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\/712751","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=712751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}