This red alert, the highest warning issued by the Met for heat, is intended especially for London and central UK, while warning that high temperatures could cause travel disruptions, such as train or flight cancellation.

This “extraordinary heatwave on Monday and Tuesday” could have “widespread impacts on people and infrastructure,” the Bureau of Meteorology said in issuing the warning. The warning covers an area From London to Manchester and then to the Vale of York (northern English). This is potential very serious situationadded Met spokesman Grahame Madge.

For this reason, the UK Government has launched prevention plan so that Public health (NHS, in English) is ready to serve vulnerable people. The Cabinet Secretary, Kit Malthouse, told the media that the main thing is to “prepare” government services and it is very important that people look after the “most vulnerable groups”, such as children and parents.

There is an “opportunity” that this weekend temperature reaches 40 degreeswhich will be notes, said Malthouse, who on Thursday participated in a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee, made up of several members of the Government, to evaluate the authorities’ response to this heatwave. Authorities have asked residents to look after high level of hydration, close the curtains at home and stay out of the sun In the middle of the day.

The Met has shown that high temperatures respond to warm air coming from the southern continent of Europe.

The office warned in a note that residents may experience adverse health effects that will not be limited to the most vulnerable people – such as children and the elderly – and which could cause “serious or life-threatening illness“.