Heat and cold risk intelligence
UK average temperatures are rising. That means hotter, more intense summer heatwaves and milder, wetter winters with more occasional extreme cold snaps. These conditions present growing risks to assets and infrastructure, and to fully understand those risks, you need intelligence.
Heat risk intelligence
Rising temperatures and prolonged heatwaves affect buildings, infrastructure, business operations, and human health. To understand those effects, you need to know what’s happening today, and what might happen tomorrow.
Twinn's heat risk intelligence uses local heat metrics to help organisations identify, assess, and monitor heat-related risk across individual assets and portfolios.
It provides detailed mapping of Tropical Nights (where temperatures remain above 20°C), Summer Days (with maximum temperatures above 25°C), Hot Summer Days (with temperatures above 30°C) and Extreme Summer Days (with temperatures over 35°C).
HeatScore converts those datasets into a simple 0–100 score which you can use for portfolio screening, reporting, dashboards, underwriting, and climate risk assessments.
Cold risk intelligence
While winters are generally becoming milder, they’re also becoming wetter – and temperatures continue to regularly drop below freezing in much of Great Britain. This combination of water saturated materials and short, sudden freezes can cause severe freeze-thaw erosion to structures – on top of already present frost and cold exposure risks.
To understand the risk levels facing properties and infrastructure, you need reliable data.
Twinn cold risk intelligence identifies annual frost days, where the minimum temperature falls below 0°C, and ColdScore converts that data into an easy-to-use risk score.
Know your exposure to temperature extremes, and make the right decisions
Twinn’s heat and cold risk intelligence tools both contain intelligence for the climate situation today as well as four future climate scenarios. They can help organisations make informed decisions surrounding extreme temperature exposure across:
- Insurance
- Banking
- Asset management
- Infrastructure
- Transport
- Utilities
- Agriculture
- Local authorities
- Property
If you work in one of these areas and want to know how extreme temperatures could affect your portfolio going forward, contact our expert team. We’ll discuss how heat risk intelligence and cold risk intelligence can help your organisation better understand and manage extreme temperature exposure, today and tomorrow.
