'Even in the shade in 40°C heat and 80% humidity you won’t live for very long.' Experts have warned that up to 10,000 people could die during the heatwave next week, when temperatures are predicted to reach a dangerously high peak.
The heatwave is set to reach a dangerously high peak Schools have announced they’ll close on Monday and Tuesday, telling pupils they ‘cannot keep the temperature in many of our rooms to an acceptable and safe level’.
‘It’s possible that, because there have been so many warnings about the coming high temperatures, people and businesses will be taking more precautions than usually happen in a heatwave, which could lower the numbers of excess deaths. I hope that happens, but I fear there will still be excess death on quite a scale.’, former government chief scientist Sir David King said it is ‘very likely to be the hottest heatwave we have experienced on record in the UK’.
On Sunday, it could reach 30°C in the capital, 27°C in Cardiff, 24°C in Belfast and 23°C in Edinburgh.supports HTML5 video The UK Health Security Agency has increased its heat health warning from level three to level four – a ‘national emergency’.
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