Wrap up warm, we don't want you to have a heart attack - Met Office to text cold snap alerts to patients with cardiac problems

"It is advice that has traditionally been dispensed by mothers and grandmothers. But now the UK Met Office is also warning people to wrap up warm to dodge a nasty chest as part of a pilot scheme offering patients personal weather warnings. Patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease will be called by the automated service to warn them of severe weather conditions over the following week. The scheme, called Operation Cold Front, is to be launched in Stoke-on-Trent next month in the latest of a series of trials around the UK of the Met Office's COPD alert service" - Mail Online