{"id":716381,"date":"2026-07-29T01:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716381\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T01:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:10:09","slug":"uk-weather-amber-heat-health-alerts-issued-as-heatwave-peaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716381\/","title":{"rendered":"UK weather: Amber heat health alerts issued as heatwave peaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paired with the significant heat, the lack of rain means dry ground and low soil moisture levels will continue to be of concern. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whilst rain and then showers are forecast across Northern Ireland, Scotland and perhaps the far north of England, barely a millimetre is likely to fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By Friday and into the weekend, pressure will build across the southern half of the UK prolonging the dry spell further, despite a few showers continuing in the north. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An ongoing lack of rain means <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crmrnvl2xw8o\" class=\"ssrcss-51189d-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hosepipe bans<\/a> are in force for millions of households and dry vegetation has provided fuel for wildfires to burn in a number of areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the Met Office, rainfall in England this month is at 4.4mm, one of the lowest levels on record &#8211; tied with June 1925 and behind only February 1891 when 3.3mm were recorded. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wisley in Surrey has been one of the driest locations in south-east England, clocking up 41 days of no rain as of 28 July. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rainfall levels in Wales, where drought was triggered in parts last week, are so low that July 2026 is currently the fourth driest of any month since records began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paired with the significant heat, the lack of rain means dry ground and low soil moisture levels will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-716381","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\/716381","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=716381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}