How Much Hotter Is It In The Slums?
Researchers took temperature readings in Nairobi's biggest slum during the summer and compared it to readings from a weather station half a mile away. There definitely was a difference.
When Nairobi gets hot, its slums get even hotter.
That's what a new study published in PLOS ONE has found. In 2015, researchers put dozens of thermometers in poor communities and monitored them during Nairobi's warmest months of December, January and February — during what turned out to be the capital's hottest summer in 30 years.
They found that slums were 5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the city's official weather station less than half a mile away.
Average daily temperatures over the graduate student researching urban climate issues.
