A YELLOW warning has been issued as temperatures are expected to soar across the West Midlands next week.

A heat health alert has been issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), which will start at 9am on Monday, July 29 and last until 11pm on Wednesday, July 31.

The Met Office has predicted temperatures to reach the high 20s in parts of Worcestershire and the Black Country.

The UKHSA said: “Minor impacts are probable across the health and social care sector, including increased use of healthcare services by the vulnerable population [and] increase in risk of mortality amongst vulnerable individuals and increased potential for indoor environments to become very warm.”

David Hayter is a Deputy Chief Meteorologist at the Met Office and said: “As we go through the weekend, the jet stream will weaken to the west of the UK generating an area of high pressure that will slowly move in across the UK. High pressure means the air is sinking from higher in the atmosphere and that brings drier, settled and sunnier weather.

“Temperatures will rise too, becoming widely above average. We could see maxima of 27°C in the south and 25°C in the northeast by Sunday. There’s a bit more in the way of patchy cloud in Northern Ireland, south and west Scotland and the northern isles, so temperatures will be lower there.”