Darwin is a small town. Surrounded by major roads is actually funny to hear when compared to surbubian sydney, adelaide etc. Or even heaven forbid PENRITH
The radar snaps yesterday were really just to highlight the local perception that the large tract of clear airport land in the middle of the city is responsible for the often observed break up of storms on approach to darwin then reforming once passed.
2008 Wacks post and link is a great example of UHI. A study carried out by the Uni Of WA, Csiro and others
2.2 Metro wide areas of heat
The following includes the maps produced at the metro level with hot spots individually determined at the mean of temperature plus one, two and three standard deviations.
State based heat maps from page 37 highlight the observed UHI affect. Clearly evident here for Darwin.
Just for your curiosity Darwins BOM station is located right here
