Before revision: London is generally 3 to 9 Celsius hotter than the Home Counties.Mike Davies; Implications of UHI Issues for Urban Planning: a London Perspective; Office of the Mayor of London, 2007 London’s meteorological aberrations were first studied by Luke Howard, FRS in the 1810s, Luke Howard, The climate of London, deduced from Meteorological observations, made at different places in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, 2 vol., London, 1818-20 but the notion that this large warm area would produce a significant urban thermal plume was not seriously proposed until very recently.
After revision: London is generally 3 to 9 Celsius hotter than the Home Counties.Mike Davies; Implications of UHI Issues for Urban Planning: a London Perspective; Office of the Mayor of London, 2007 London’s meteorological aberrations were first studied by Luke Howard, FRS in the 1810s, but the notion that this large warm area would produce a significant urban thermal plume was not seriously proposed until very recently.