The Met Office issues weather warnings when severe weather is likely and has the potential to disrupt day-to-day life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
These are colour-coded yellow, amber and red to reflect how likely the extreme weather is and how badly it could impact people.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They only cover the parts of the country affected and last for a period of hours or sometimes days.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Most often they are for rain, wind, snow and heat.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yellow<\/b>\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yellow warnings are usually issued when bad weather is due but the impact on daily life will be relatively small.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Disruption will likely involve travel delays, loss of electricity and water supplies, and minor damage to buildings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They can also be used when the impact of the weather could be much more severe \u2013 and even endanger life \u2013 but this is less likely.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Amber\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
Amber warnings mean the weather is much more likely to disrupt your plans.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It could result in travel delays and cancellations, power cuts and risk to life and property.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Forecasters will ask people to consider changing their plans to minimise risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Red\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
Red weather warnings are the most severe and mean dangerous weather is likely.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They are likely to mean complete disruption to travel, loss of power and water, and significant damage to homes and businesses that is likely to endanger life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When a red warning is issued forecasters urge people to take immediate plans to protect their homes and businesses and avoid any travel where possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Met Office issues weather warnings when severe weather is likely and has the potential to disrupt day-to-day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-675126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115841827048601160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675126","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=675126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}