A HEAT-health warning has been issued for Dorset as temperatures soar.
The level 2 alert states there is a 60 per cent probability of threshold temperatures being reached between 12am on Sunday, July 18, and 12am on Tuesday, July 20.
It has been issued by the Met Office and Public Health England and covers most of the country.
The Met Office says: “High pressure will bring a spell of fine, dry and increasingly warm, locally hot, weather during Sunday and Monday.
"Temperatures are expected to reach the high 20s Celsius widely, with some regions exceeding the 30 Celsius. However, we are likely to see a slow reduction in temperatures through Monday and particularly Tuesday, thanks to an increasing chance of showers, perhaps heavy at times.”
As reported by the Daily Echo, BCP Council and Dorset Police have outlined precautionary measures to combat the huge footfall expected in Dorset this weekend.
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