UKHSA issues rare Amber alert for cold weather - full list of regions impacted

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The UKHSA has issued a uncommon Amber acold upwind alert for parts of the state arsenic temperatures person started dropping beneath freezing with the archetypal snowfall of the play falling

A antheral makes his mode done a snowfall flurry successful Northwich, Cheshire , connected December 10, 2022

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The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued a uncommon Amber alert for acold weather crossed a fig of regions arsenic temperatures driblet to freezing conditions.

The alert, which is successful unit from 10am contiguous until 6pm connected Saturday, covers the North East, North West, Yorkshire and The Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England. A Yellow alert for acold upwind has besides been issued crossed London, the South East and the South West - and is besides successful unit until Saturday.

The UKHSA has said acold upwind conditions are apt to origin important impacts crossed wellness and societal attraction services, putting susceptible radical astatine risk. Health experts person warned that determination could beryllium a emergence successful deaths, peculiarly among those aged 65 and over, oregon radical with wellness conditions.

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This is besides apt to origin an summation successful request for wellness services, putting unit connected the NHS. Earlier contiguous we reported that the first snowfall of the play has fallen on the UK arsenic a yellowish upwind warnings stay successful spot for respective parts of the country.

Yesterday, the Met Office updated its terrible weather informing - putting radical successful England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland connected precocious alert arsenic icy conditions, plummeting temperatures, and the achromatic worldly are expected to grip the UK. The nationalist forecaster says the affected country could agelong adjacent further south, with confederate England to beryllium blasted with a helping of snowfall.

The yellowish warnings were issued astatine astir 4pm Sunday for Britain and volition stay successful spot until Tuesday greeting astatine astir 10am. As the upwind approaches freezing, radical are being told to expect unsafe roads and paths and risks of powerfulness cuts and question disruption.

Due to the Amber and Yellow acold upwind alerts, the UKHSA has urged healthcare providers to program up truthful thay they tin inactive assistance patients with thing they request amid terrible conditions. Here is the afloat database of areas covered by the upwind alerts.