Just watching the Met Office online video forecast. Made me smile when the presenter used the term 'Exceptionally warm for the time of year'. At what time of year would this not be exceptionally warm!? 

I've heard weather presenters say the same in mid winter when describing a cold snap as 'Very cold for the time of year' 

For this type of warning I would agree to going back to Local Authority boundaries or even Counties.

I am in amber but 3 miles down the road is red. If red means closure and amber doesn't (I am not sure) could mean some local schools/services are open but others not.
The sketched warning areas are good for snow though as it literally can be wet on the lower part of some cities which slope into the Pennines and white on the other side and can also help where there are streamers 

But for 1c difference in a heatwave just do it by Local Authority areas.

Lets see what happens anyway

Not sure that will help, I have lived near local authority borders, and in three different homes over the years, some primary children and secondary schools were either side, painful for some families when half terms were set as different weeks.

But actually I am not convinced some childrens homes would be safer than a school building, so suggesting schools should close could cause different problems 

Schools are not closing at. My boys primary school have just emailed that they will keep them in the shade on Monday and Tuesday at break times. 😄

Id keep them home from School. 

I'm working and my wife is a teacher so its difficult.  But we'll see what happens. Maybe they will shut schools but I doubt it 

Makes complete sense so definitely won't happen. 

Here's the forecast from the BBC for 40C, plus the mention of thousands of people dying. At least it's being taken seriously - I just hope the population at large pays attention!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather

"This is dangerous, unprecedented heat."

Watched it already and really surreal to see 40C on the UK map, always see that in Cyprus Map.

Wow.

(Raining at 25C is unusual too, for three hours on Wednesday!)

I didn’t hear that mentioned - was it taken out?

No, the clip has been updated since then. Shame I couldn't save a copy, really, it was quite casually mentioned too.

EDIT: If you're quick, go here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcnews

and go back to 15:57.

Or alternatively go here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62177458

It's the video at the head of the article.

It's a good job then, that the schools here in Scotland are already on holiday with that having been the case since the beginning of this month.

That is therefore, an issue which we don't have to deal with up here and so, I would imagine that a number of southerners at least, must be wishing at the moment that the English schools had followed suit.

However, the fact that the English schools holidays are a lot later than the Scottish school holidays has always been the case as far as I know.

Having said that though, it was only really in the late 2000s/early 2010s that I discovered that because I can remember travelling down to the small town of Sandy in Bedfordshire at that around that time at around this time of the year, only to discovered that the schools were not yet on holiday, even though our own Scottish schools had already been on holiday for quite a while.

These idiots won’t take it seriously until they’re in hospital on a drip. 

“We survived the blitz. How bad can it be?”

"It's just some hot weather FFS, have an extra beer"

But the 40dc Temp symbol gone for Tue ‘only’ 39