What to Do During Heat Health Alerts When Temperatures Rise Above 30°C
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What to Do During Heat Health Alerts When Temperatures Rise Above 30°C
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As Britain faces increasingly unpredictable summer spikes, the Met Office and UK Health Security Agency have overhauled their weather warning systems to protect the public. The danger to human health increases quickly when the temperature rises above 30°C. According to a seminal study titled "Global, regional and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures" that was published in The Lancet Planetary Health, temperate countries like the UK are particularly vulnerable to extreme heatwaves because they typically lack infrastructure and acclimatisation.