{"id":63068,"date":"2022-07-16T07:36:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T12:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63068"},"modified":"2022-07-16T07:36:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T12:36:27","slug":"uk-met-office-issues-first-red-warning-for-extreme-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63068","title":{"rendered":"UK Met Office Issues First Red Warning for Extreme Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The UK\u2019s Met Office has issued its first ever red warning for extreme heat, as it warned of a \u201cpotentially very serious situation\u201d in parts of England that could pose a risk to life.<\/p>\n

During the ongoing\u00a0heatwave<\/a>\u00a0that is set to peak on Tuesday, the Met Office said, there is an 80 percent chance of the mercury topping the UK\u2019s record temperature of 38.7C (101.7F) set in Cambridge in 2019, and there is a 50 percent chance of temperatures reaching 40C somewhere in the UK.<\/p>\n

The red warning, the first of its kind ever issued, covers an area from London up to Manchester and then up to the Vale of York, said Met Office spokesman Grahame Madge, adding: \u201cThis is potentially a very serious situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Penny Endersby, Met Office chief executive, said in a sombre video shared online: \u201cThe extreme heat that we\u2019re forecasting right now is absolutely unprecedented.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cStay out of the sun, keep your home cool, think about adjusting your plans for the warning period,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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The UK Health Security Agency has increased its heat health warning from level three to level four, which indicates the situation amounts to a \u201cnational emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Level four is reached \u201cwhen a heatwave is so severe and\/or prolonged that its effects extend outside the health and social care system\u2026 At this level, illness and death may occur among the fit and healthy, and not just in high-risk groups,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

England\u2019s chief medical officer, Professor Sir Chris Whitty, asked people on Twitter to look out for each other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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