Neighbourhoods close to green parks and bodies of water are cooler throughout the year, finds a new UCL study focusing on the east of London, which also showed that low-cost weather sensors could provide usable research data in areas lacking climate data. The research, published in Meteorological Applications , showed that east London neighbourhoods located around the Olympic Park were hotter by 0.53C than the park itself on average, and as much as 0.87C during the summer. This reinforces the