NOAA is crowdsourcing a national urban heat map

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By Angely MercadoAug 7, 2020, 3:55 am120 pts
Summers are getting hotter, but the heat is not being suffered equally. The urban heat island effect — a phenomenon in which traditional urban design features attract the sun’s rays, making some cities several degrees hotter than surrounding areas — disproportionately exposes urban residents to dangerous…

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