3 hours ago More than 300 schools crossed England and Wales are readying to beryllium either partially oregon afloat closed connected Tuesday and aboriginal this week due to the fact that of the weather.
Others are besides closing aboriginal connected Wednesday and Thursday to support children from the heat, with immoderate pupils being told they tin deterioration PE kit alternatively than afloat schoolhouse uniforms for those days.
The Department for Education does not itself "normally counsel schools to close" and alternatively issues guidance connected however champion to negociate precocious temperatures.
There volition besides beryllium question disruption for those travelling by car, obstruction and air, the Met Office warned.
On the National Rail network, passengers person been urged against undertaking non-essential question and to marque definite they are carrying water.
GTR - the UK's largest bid relation - said it volition suspend the Gatwick Express from aboriginal day connected Wednesday and Thursday. The airdrome volition inactive person services via Thameslink and Southern trains.
The relation volition besides instrumentality information velocity restrictions crossed the adjacent 2 days, with less trains connected Thameslink, Great Northern and Southern lines.
GTR passengers tin get refunds for tickets they person bought for Tuesday and the adjacent mates of days if they volition nary longer beryllium travelling.
Avanti West Coast besides said it would tally less bid services betwixt Tuesday and Thursday, portion Chiltern Railways has reduced its services by much than fractional implicit those 3 days.
National Rail explained that vigor tin origin a fig of issues including overhead lines expanding and rails buckling.
The RAC said it is anticipating breakdown assistance volition "increase importantly arsenic temperatures peak", adding that it was already dealing with 10% much breakdowns than accustomed for this clip of year.
Meanwhile, ceremonial defender changes successful London and Windsor person been cancelled connected Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday successful a bid to trim risks for the subject personnel, horses and the public.
Less terrible amber upwind warnings are successful spot until Thursday for parts of southbound and cardinal England and parts of Wales.
Tuesday's blistery and humid upwind was prefaced by thunderstorms successful the aboriginal hours, with immoderate 29,000 lightning strikes recorded successful the south, the Met Office said.
The storms caused flash flooding and question disruption crossed parts of England, with the London Fire Brigade reporting that it responded to 400 calls overnight.
Emergency services said 2 location fires successful London and 1 successful Bristol were believed to person been caused by lightning strikes.
There were besides powerfulness outages successful south-west England, with hundreds of homes concisely without energy connected Monday evening, according to the National Grid.
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