From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

Returning to the “Record” temperature at Kew Gardens last week, it’s worth taking a closer look at UHI:

Although Kew Gardens itself is open space, it is surrounded on all sides by London’s built up environment. Kew simply cannot escape the Urban Heat Island effect of that entirely.

One study, above, found that average daily max temperatures were as high in and around Kew as elsewhere in London, during the summer of 2006. Kew was a good 2C hotter than the leafy southern extremities of Bromley and Croydon.

What is just as significant though is the temperature distribution during the July heatwave that year:

Note how the hottest parts were to the west, suggesting that the winds south-easterly winds had carried the UHI effect to the northwest.

The weather set up was very similar last week,and it is no coincidence that, along with Kew, three other west London sites, Heathrow, Northolt and Teddington were the four hottest spots in the country:

What we saw last week was not “climate change”, it was urban heat island effect.

If anybody is in any doubt about the unsuitability of Kew as a climatological station, a few years ago the BBC/Met Office laughably tried to present Heathrow as a reliable site, because its temperatures closely tracked Kew!

AS GOOD AS HEATHROW!!

That’s hardly a commendation!