Met Office extends amber weather warning for Norfolk heat

A weather warning for extreme heat has been extended for Norfolk <i>(Image: Denise Bradley)</i>
A weather warning for extreme heat has been extended for Norfolk (Image: Denise Bradley)
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A weather warning for extreme heat has been extended for Norfolk.

The amber warning was due to end at 9pm on Saturday night, however, The Met Office has said it will now end at 9am on Sunday.

Parts of Norfolk are forecast to have temperatures peak above 30C with the forecaster warning hot and humid weather is set to continue.

It comes after the village of Santon Downham on the Norfolk and Suffolk border recorded the hottest ever day in June on Friday with temperatures peaking at 37.3C.

The Met Office is warning adverse health affects are likely to be felt by those vulnerable to extreme heat such as sunburn or heat exhaustion.

A spokesman for the forecaster said: "Temperatures overnight Saturday into Sunday remain unlikely to fall below high teens Celsius for most, with a few places not dropping below 20 Celsius.

"This will again be accompanied by high humidity at first, but fresher conditions will steadily become established from the west during the latter part of the night.

"Another hot day is expected in the far east of the region on Sunday, but both temperatures and humidity lower than recent days with a much lower likelihood of further impacts."

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