{"id":1044222,"date":"2026-06-23T04:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1044222\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T04:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:08:23","slug":"power-cuts-live-bristol-birmingham-and-leicester-face-heatwave-chaos-weather-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1044222\/","title":{"rendered":"Power cuts LIVE: Bristol, Birmingham and Leicester face heatwave chaos | Weather | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has been hit with power cuts as scorching high temperatures begin and <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/weather\/2220297\/humidity-heatwave-met-office\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extreme heat alerts are in place<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Households <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/2220602\/bristol-airport-closed-live-thunderstorms-cancel-flights-major-uk-airport-850-passengers-s\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Bristol<\/a>, Birmingham and Leicester have already had their power impacted by the severe weather.<\/p>\n<p>National Grid have issued a hot weather alert, in which they claim &#8220;teams are ready around the clock, and if your power goes off, we will work to get it back on as safely and as quickly as we can,&#8221; during the sweltering spell.<\/p>\n<p>In Bristol, alongside the heat thunderstorms have caused chaos, with homes on fire after being struck by lightning.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/met-office\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Met Office<\/a> have issued power cut warnings to 71 areas across the UK on Tuesday, with more areas expected to be impacted the following days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a live news story, please follow below for further updates. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK has been hit with power cuts as scorching high temperatures begin and extreme heat alerts are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1044223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,1312,393,4884,2461,16,15],"class_list":["post-1044222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-electricity","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-heatwave","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116797460304135093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1044223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}