{"id":448528,"date":"2026-06-04T09:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=448528"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:20:32","slug":"record-temperatures-uhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=448528","title":{"rendered":"Record Temperatures &\u00a0UHI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Returning to the \u201cRecord\u201d temperature at Kew Gardens last week, it\u2019s worth taking a closer look at UHI:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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London\u2019s Urban Heat Island – During A Warm Summer – London Datastore<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Although Kew Gardens itself is open space, it is surrounded on all sides by London\u2019s built up environment. Kew simply cannot escape the Urban Heat Island effect of that entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is just as significant though is the temperature distribution during the July heatwave that year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note how the hottest parts were to the west, suggesting that the winds south-easterly winds had carried the UHI effect to the northwest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What we saw last week was not \u201cclimate change\u201d, it was urban heat island effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heatwave: Why is Heathrow so hot? – BBC News<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

AS GOOD AS HEATHROW!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s hardly a commendation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The urban heat island (UHI) effect is real: cities tend to run warmer than surrounding rural areas because of buildings, paved surfaces, reduced vegetation, and stored heat. Kew Gardens is inside Greater London, so UHI is a legitimate factor to consider when interpreting local temperature extremes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":448550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691843503,691819134,691818056,691819743,691843504,691843429,691828654],"class_list":["post-448528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-record-temperature-3","tag-climate-alarmism","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-propaganda","tag-climatological-station","tag-kew-gardens","tag-urban-heat-island-effect-uhi","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0-ChatGPT-Record-Temperatures-UHI.png?fit=1536%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1SGk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":372439,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=372439","url_meta":{"origin":448528,"position":0},"title":"Sorry, ABC News, Early Cherry Blossom Bloom Is Due to Urban Heat Island, Not Climate Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"03\/28\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"ABC News ran a story this week reporting on the early bloom of the cherry blossom trees in Washington, D.C., attributing the early bloom to climate change. 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