All the Powys schools announcing they're closed on Thursday

The Met Office issued a rare red warning on Monday, which has been in effect throughout Powys, especially the south of the county, today (Wednesday, June 24) from 9am until 9pm on Thursday, with a so-called “heat dome” settling over western Europe.

Earlier today, the weather forecaster extended the red warning until midnight on Thursday.

The announcement saw seven schools across Powys announce a full or partial closure on Wednesday.

However, Powys County Council has announced that on Thursday, where Powys could be set for record-breaking temperatures for June, 30 schools have so far announced that they will be closed for at least part of the day.

Seven primary schools, including Berriew, Crickhowell, Guilsfield, Hay-on-Wye, Llanelwedd, Llangattock and Llangynidr, will be closed from the afternoon; while Ysgol Rhiw Bechan, in Tregynon, will close in the afternoon, and has announced that its reception class, as well as Years 1-6, will be open.

As far as secondary schools are concerned, Crickhowell, Gwernyfed, Llanidloes, Newtown, Newtown High School John Beddoes campus, Ysgol Calon Cymru (Builth Wells and Llandrindod Wells campuses), Welshpool High School, Machynlleth’s Ysgol Bro Hyddgen all-age school and Ystradgynlais’ Ysgol Maesydderwen, will all be closed for the full day.

The Pupil Referral Units (PRU) at Newtown and Brecon will also be shut all day.

Ysgol Calon Cymru's campuses in Llandrindod and Builth will both be shut. (Image: Google)

The shutting of schools comes as the UK could reach temperatures of 40C on Thursday – to put this in context it is only the second time the Met Office has issued a red warning for extreme heat.

Several places, such as Machynlleth, Builth, Hay and Brecon are predicted to reach 35C.

This means Powys could be breaking a June record, which was recorded in Machynlleth in 2000 at 33.7C.

For a full list of school closures, visit https://en.powys.gov.uk/schoolclosures.

Schools closed on June 25          

All the schools that have announced they will be closed, and for what period.

• Abermule Primary School - Full Day
• Berriew Primary School - Afternoon
• Brynllywarch Hall School - Full Day
• Builth Wells Primary School - Full Day
• Clyro Primary School - Full Day
• Crickhowell Primary School - Afternoon
• Crickhowell High School - Full Day
• Guilsfield Primary School - Afternoon
• Gwernyfed High School - Full Day
• Hay-on-Wye Primary School - Afternoon
• Llanfaes C.P. School - Full Day
• Llanelwedd Primary School - Afternoon
• Llangattock Primary School - Afternoon
• Llangors Primary School - Afternoon
• Llangynidr Primary School - Afternoon
• Llanidloes High School - Full Day
• Newtown High School - John Beddoes - Full Day
• Newtown High School – Newtown - Full Day
• Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) Brecon - Full Day
• Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) Newtown  - Full Day
• Welshpool Primary School - Full Day
• Welshpool High School - Full Day
• Ysgol Bro Hyddgen - Full Day
• Ysgol Bro Tawe - Full Day
• Ysgol Calon Cymru - Builth campus - Full Day
• Ysgol Calon Cymru - Llandrindod campus - Full Day
• Ysgol Golwg y Cwm - Full Day
• Ysgol Gymraeg Dyffryn y Glowyr - Full Day
• Ysgol Gymraeg y Trallwng - Afternoon
• Ysgol Maesydderwen - Full Day
• Ysgol Penmaes - Full Day
• Ysgol Rhiw Bechan - Afternoon
• Ysgol Robert Owen - Full Day
• Ysgol Trefonnen - Full Day
• Ysgol y Mynydd Du - Full Day