How new satellite data is changing our understanding of London’s overheating problem

By Tom Lowe2024-02-06T06:00:00

A new report by Arup for the mayor of London has highlighted the worsening issue of heat risk in our city centres as summers get steadily hotter. Tom Lowe reports.

Anyone who has worked from home in London will know the trauma of a summer heatwave. Everyone who has endured sitting at a desk during long afternoons of internal temperatures approaching levels that could fire pottery will have learned a different coping mechanism, whether it is drawing the curtains to stop the sun getting in, setting up multiple fans or running to the bathroom for cold showers between Zoom meetings.

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