
Extreme Weather Alerts
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Heat health alert extended for the South West
The amber heat health alert is in effect from 10AM on 30/06/2025 until
9AM on 02/07/2025 across the South West. The amber alert has a
matrix score of 12. This means:
Significant impacts are likely across health and social care services
due to the high temperatures, including: - a rise in deaths, particularly among those aged 65 and
over or with health conditions. There may also be impacts on younger age
groups
- likely increased demand on all health and social care
services
- internal temperatures in care settings (hospitals and
care homes) may exceed the recommended threshold for clinical risk
assessment
- the heat affecting the ability of the workforce to
deliver services
- indoor environments overheating increasing the risk to
vulnerable people living independently in community and care settings
- issues managing medicines
- staffing issues due to external factors (for example,
affecting transport)
- increased demand for power exceeding capacity
- other sectors starting to observe impacts (for example,
travel delays)
You can see all the weather
health alerts currently in place across England on the UKHSA data
dashboard.
How to take action if you have a duty to respond
Please review the Weather
Health Alert System user guidance to explain how you can use the
information contained within the alerts to respond to the forecast weather.
We provide guidance on how to take action for a range of professional groups
with a duty to respond, with action cards available for commissioners,
health
and social care providers, voluntary
and community sector, and national
government. Summary action cards are also available below:
· commissioners
· voluntary
and community sector
· care
homes and other residential settings
· services
delivering care to people in their homes
· hospitals
and other healthcare settings
For an overview of the weather alerts in place across England, please check
the UKHSA
data dashboard.
The Met Office may issue National Severe Weather Warnings (for example,
extreme heat) with short notice, so you can take appropriate action. Check the
Met Office Website to see the National
Severe Weather Warnings currently in place.
You can also find information of the latest
weather forecast on the Met Office website.
How to protect yourself if you are vulnerable
While exposure to hot weather can affect anyone, some people are particularly at risk. We have published guidance on staying safe during hot weather.
Forecast issued by the Met Office on behalf of UKHSA on Friday, 27, June, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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current Weather-Health Alerting situation
Overview of hot weather over the next 5 days
Southwesterly winds on Friday will draw warmer and more humid air across
large parts of England, setting the stage for a notably warm weekend. While
cloud and outbreaks of rain are expected to limit the warmth across northern
and some western parts, the east and southeast are likely to see drier
conditions and prolonged sunshine, allowing temperatures to exceed 27 degrees
Celsius from Friday onwards. Southern coasts may stay cooler due to onshore
breezes, low cloud or coastal mist. Temperatures are forecast to rise further
on Saturday and Sunday, likely peaking on Monday. There remains a good chance
of exceeding the medium threshold, especially across East and Southeast England
where a peak value of 33-34°C could be observed. 30°C could also be reached in parts
of the West and East Midlands and the Southwest. Nights will feel warm and
humid too, with minimum temperatures widely staying above 16°C. Thunderstorms
possible across central parts Monday before slightly fresher conditions are
anticipated to return on Tuesday, as a band of cloud and showery rain sinks
southeast, though confidence in the exact timing is low at this stage and the
Southeast is likely to remain very warm.
Overview of hot weather over the next 6 to 15 days
High pressure out the the west in the Atlantic will likely allow a spell of
mostly settled and warm weather to become established for a time. There remains
the risk of outbreaks of showers at times, or perhaps weakening bands of rain
arriving from the northwest. Temperatures are expected to be above average to
start, but less-hot than the previous period. Changeable conditions may then
become more likely toward the end of the period, with wetter and windier
conditons across the north and west, but drier conditoons to the south and
east. There remains a reasonable chance of Low impact threshold temperatures
being breached later next week, most likely across central and southeastern
regions.
Overview of hot weather over the next 16 to 30 days
Changeable conditions are more likely than settled conditions at first,
especially across northern and western parts, and extending more widely across
the UK at times. However, some drier and more settled spells remain possible,
especially later in the period, these generally biased more towards the south
and east. Some very warm spells are possible, the likelihood of these slightly
higher than climatology, and most likely in the south or southeast.