{"id":216346,"date":"2025-06-26T16:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/216346\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:45:11","slug":"met-office-forecast-puts-wales-on-brink-of-heatwave-as-amber-warning-issued-for-parts-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/216346\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Office forecast puts Wales on brink of heatwave as amber warning issued for parts of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One area of Wales could see highs of 30\u00b0C on Monday<\/p>\n<p>15:04, 26 Jun 2025Updated 15:57, 26 Jun 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_heatwaavewsJPG.jpg\" alt=\"The weather map for Monday with the highest temperatures in the east\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The weather map for Monday with the highest temperatures in the east<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Met Office has put Wales on the brink of a heatwave as an amber heat warning has been put in place for parts of England. For Wales to have a heatwave, it has to be 25\u00b0C for three days in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">And <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/wales-weather\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">weather<\/a> maps from the meteorological service show that temperatures fall just outside that in the coming days. Mike Silverstone, a deputy chief meteorologist at the Met Office predicted that the east of Wales looks set to get the hottest weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He said: \u201cHigher temperatures building over the weekend and into early next week will bring particularly warm, hot or even very hot conditions for some, especially in the southeast and east Anglia and more locally elsewhere in England and east Wales. This in part will be influenced by a heatwave developing across western Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cBy the weekend, an area of high pressure will be intensifying and dominating the UK forecast. Conditions will be hottest in the south and east while areas further north and northwest will be relatively cooler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">On Friday, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/wrexham\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Wrexham<\/a>, Monmouth, and Chepstow will experience the hottest temperatures in Wales, with 24\u00b0C at 3pm. It will also be 23\u00b0C in Hay-on-Wye and Newtown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">On Saturday, Welshpool and Wrexham will enjoy temperatures of 24\u00b0C. It will be 23\u00b0C in Flint. Then on Sunday, temperatures will rise to 25\u00b0C in Hay-on-Wye, 25\u00b0C in Wrexham and Welshpool, and 24\u00b0C in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/brecon\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Brecon<\/a> and Builth Wells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Monday is set to be very hot in parts of Wales, with Monmouth set for 30\u00b0C, Chepstow and Abergavenny 29\u00b0C, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/newport\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Newport<\/a> and Hay-on-Wye 28\u00b0C, Welshpool 27\u00b0C, and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/cardiff\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Cardiff<\/a>, Brecon, Newtown and Builth Wells 26\u00b0C temperatures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The UK Health Security Agency, which looks at potential impacts in the health and social care sector in England, has put an amber health warning in place for east Midlands, the east of England, London, the south east, and south west, starting from June 27 at 12 noon until July 1 at 6pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The agency says that significant impacts are likely across health and social care services due to the high temperatures, including a rise in deaths, particularly among those ages 65 and over or with health conditions. It says there may also be impacts on younger age groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It adds that it is likely to increase demand on all health and social care services, and that internal temperatures in care settings (hospitals and care homes) may exceed recommended threshold for clinical risk assessment, with the heat affecting the ability of the workforce to deliver services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It says there is also a risk of indoor environments overheating, increased the risk to vulnerable people living independently in community and care settings, issues managing medicines, and staffing issues due to external factors like transport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One area of Wales could see highs of 30\u00b0C on Monday 15:04, 26 Jun 2025Updated 15:57, 26 Jun&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,1142,16,15,1764,16366],"class_list":{"0":"post-216346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-met-office","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-wales","14":"tag-wales-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114750680211736167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216346","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=216346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}