{"id":1912,"date":"2014-07-22T21:25:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T21:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2014-07-22T21:28:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T21:28:59","slug":"schools-out-for-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/schools-out-for-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools out for summer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The start of the school summer holidays is heralded by a period of dry weather across much of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/uk\/\">UK<\/a>, with good spells of sunshine, patchy cloud and temperatures staying just above average for many.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_154531766.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1913\" title=\"shutterstock_154531766\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_154531766.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_154531766.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_154531766-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a chance of\u00a0thundery showers, but\u00a0the signs are currently that a\u00a0settled pattern with high pressure\u00a0may well continue to dominate for several days to come.<\/p>\n<p>Eddy Carroll,\u00a0Chief Meteorologist at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/\">Met Office<\/a>, said: &#8220;The rest of July will see temperatures into the mid to high twenties\u00a0in places and, although there is a risk of showers, for most the fine, largely dry and warm weather\u00a0looks like it could well\u00a0persist into August.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Met Office&#8217;s &#8216;<a title=\"Get ready for summer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/get-ready-for-summer\">Get Ready for the Great British Summer<\/a>&#8216; web pages are full of ideas, useful tips and information aimed at helping you make the most of the summer holidays, whatever the weather. You can choose activities that suit your mood &#8211;\u00a0whether you want to relax, be active, explore or entertain.\u00a0You can also find a wide range of unique information varying from places to visit, to fun activities and even top beach safety tips.<\/p>\n<p>The pages have been developed with a range of partners such as the\u00a0<a title=\"RNLI (this link opens in a new window)\" href=\"http:\/\/rnli.org\/Pages\/default.aspx\">RNLI<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Cancer Research (this link opens in a new window)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cancerresearchuk.org\/home\/\">Cancer Research<\/a>,<a title=\"VisitEngland (this link opens in a new window)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.visitengland.com\/\">VisitEngland<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"VisitScotland (this link opens in a new window)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.visitscotland.com\/\">VisitScotland<\/a>, and give easy access to Met Office weather forecasts and warnings, helping you plan your day and make the most of all the UK has to offer this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The site is also interactive so visitors can share their Great British Summer stories and photos via blogs, and Met Office\u2019s\u00a0<a title=\"Facebook (this link opens in a new window)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/metoffice\">Facebook<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"Twitter (this link opens in a new window)\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/metoffice\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a 14-day weather forecast, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/weather-forecasts\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Met Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The start of the school summer holidays is heralded by a period of dry weather across much of the UK, with good spells of sunshine, patchy cloud and temperatures staying just above average for many. There is a chance of\u00a0thundery showers, but\u00a0the signs are currently that a\u00a0settled pattern with high pressure\u00a0may well continue to dominate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":757,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}