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Yellow cold health alert issued for most of England

The cold health alert is effective from 6pm on Fri 17 Jan until 9am on Tues 21 Jan for all regions except South West England. You can find out more information by checking our weather health alerts page.

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Cold health alerts

The alerting system provides an early warning when adverse temperatures are likely to impact on the health and wellbeing of the population.

The Weather health alerting system is provided by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) in partnership with the Met Office. It's intended to provide early warning to the health and social care sector, the responder community, the voluntary and community sector and government departments when adverse temperatures are likely to impact on the health and wellbeing of the population. The Weather health alerting system is made up of the Heat-Health Alerts (HHA) and Cold-Health Alerts (CHA). The Weather health alerting system underpins the Adverse Weather and Health Plan.

The Cold-health alerting systems core alerting seasons runs from 1 November to 31 March each year. However should an episode of cold occur outside of this core period, an extraordinary alert will be issued. Make sure you are registered to receive the alerts directly by email by completing the registration form.

View map of weather health alerts
  • North East

    Updated 11:56am on 16 January 2025
    yellow alert
  • North West

    Updated 11:56am on 16 January 2025
    yellow alert
  • Yorkshire and The Humber

    Updated 11:56am on 16 January 2025
    yellow alert
  • East Midlands

    Updated 11:56am on 16 January 2025
    yellow alert
  • West Midlands

    Updated 11:56am on 16 January 2025
    yellow alert
  • East of England

    Updated 11:56am on 16 January 2025
    yellow alert
  • London

    Updated 11:56am on 16 January 2025
    yellow alert
  • South East

    Updated 11:56am on 16 January 2025
    yellow alert
  • South West

    Updated 11:56am on 16 January 2025
    No alert

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