Neighbourhood Watch

AMBER Heat-Health Alert

The UKHSA and Met Office has issued an AMBER Heat-Health Alert (HHA) for parts of England, including the Southeast effective from 9am Tue 12 Aug until 6pm Wed 13 Aug.

View details of the warning on the Weather Health Alerts (opens in new tab) site.

Yellow Warning: For your information, Yellow warnings can be issued for a range of weather situations. Many are issued when it is likely that the weather will cause some low level impacts, including some disruption to travel in a few places. Many people may be able to continue with their daily routine, but there will be some that will be directly impacted and so it is important to assess if you could be affected. Sussex Neighbourhood Watch usually does not circulate these, but we do circulate Amber and Red warnings.

Amber Warning (enhanced response) - An Amber alert would represent a situation in which the expected impacts are likely to be felt across the whole health service, with potential for the whole population to be at risk and where other sectors apart from health may also start to observe impacts, indicating that a coordinated response is required. In addition, in some circumstances a National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS) Extreme Heat warning may be issued in conjunction with and aligned to the HHA. This situation would indicate that significant impacts are expected across multiple sectors

Hot weather can affect your health. The people most likely to be affected are the elderly, the very young, and people with pre-existing medical conditions.

Please follow this advice to keep cool and comfortable and reduce health risks:

Also, please don’t forget about the animals in your care and view the top tips for keeping pets cool in hot weather by using the RSPCA (opens in new tab) link below.

For more information please visit: