INFORMATION - RED Met Office warning and Heat-Health alert

The AMBER Heat-Health Alert has been extended for the South West from 11:00 on 22/06/2026 until 23:00 on 26/06/2026 and a RED Heat-Health Alert added from 01:00 on 24/06/2026 until 23:00 on 25/06/2026 . In addition, the Met Office has issued an AMBER warning for extreme heat in the South West, between 01:00 (UTC+1) on Mon 22 Jun 2026 and 23:59 (UTC+1) on Thu 25 Jun 2026 and added a RED warning for extreme heat between 09:00 (UTC+1) on Wed 24 Jun 2026 and 21:00 (UTC+1) on Thu 25 Jun 2026. For full details see attached emails.

Below are links to the Heat-Health Alert (HHA) action cards produced by UKHSA summarising suggested actions to be taken by different professional bodies and organisations in the event of extreme heat. Please ensure that your service delivery partners are aware of these action cards.

• Heat-Health Alert summary action card for the voluntary and community sector

• Heat-Health Alert summary action card for commissioners

• Heat-Health Alert summary action card for services delivering care to people in their homes

• Heat-Health Alert summary action card for hospitals and healthcare in the community

• · Heat-Health Alert summary action card for care homes and other adult social care residential settings

The forecast is currently as follows:

• Tuesday 23rd June: A generally dry and fine day today, however we could see some thunderstorms moving into SW England. These could bring some medium to high level cloud, with short periods of heavy rain, hail and gusty winds, however there is a lot of uncertainty the track of these as they are very elevated which limits the amount of rainfall potentially reaching the ground.  but we're keeping a very close eye on the radar and a short notice low impact YELLOW warning could be issued if we have growing confidence of impactful storms as the day progresses.

• Wednesday 24th & Thursday 25th June: Wednesday & Thursday look to be the peak of the temperatures affecting a large swathe of the country. The AMBER EXTREME HEAT warning that was issued yesterday (Sunday) has been updated this morning and pulled further into Cornwall so pretty much covers the whole of SW England. We have also issued a RED EXTREME HEAT warning for parts of SW England, where we’re likely to see the highest temperatures.

Please see the attached emails, consider the impacts on your Business Continuity and implement any relevant actions within your own service plans.

The EMU will continue to monitor all alerts and warnings received and will cascade updates and changes to the forecast. We are activating the Severe Weather Co-ordination Group for a meeting at 15:00 today (invite to be sent out shortly), please raise any Business Continuity issues to the EMU (emu@n-somerset.gov.uk) to allow us to consider these at the meeting.