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Britain is heating up – how heat mapping can help the UK adapt to climate change

Posted on: 30 November, 2022 Last updated on: 16 January, 2025 Written by: fp86 Categorized in: News

The UK has been experiencing above-average seasonal temperatures over the last few years. In July 2022, the UK saw the air temperature at London’s Heathrow Airport soar to 40.2°C. You may be surprised to learn that the land surface temperature was even hotter?

Heathrow breaks UK’s Land Surface Temperature record

Posted on: 20 January, 2022 Last updated on: 16 January, 2025 Written by: fp86 Categorized in: News

London’s Heathrow Airport was amongst the record-breaking hottest places in the UK with an air temperature of 40.2°C. However, air temperature was not the only record to be broken at Heathrow, as the very latest official UK satellite data for Land Surface Temperature (LST) showed UK surfaces reached 48°C for the first time.