A new alert system launching today will issue warnings to people when temperatures reach dangerous levels during the summer, with the Met Office warning that future heatwaves could be ‘more intense and last longer’.
The Weather-Health Alerting system, which is run by the UK Health Security Agency and the Met Office, will send information and advice when severe heatwaves have been forecast in a bid to reduce deaths within at-risk groups.
The system will offer four different types of alerts, ranging from green which will indicate no risk to health to red, which will indicate a 'significant risk to life for even the healthy population'.
