Vegas tops the list of the country’s worst heat islands

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By Greg HanscomAug 21, 2014, 3:15 pm104 pts
Las Vegas is toast. Seriously. Thanks to the urban heat island effect, Sin City is 7.3 degrees hotter on average than the surrounding hinterlands. Considering that the hinterlands are the Mojave Desert, where summer temperatures regularly clear 100 degrees, well, I’m sweating just thinking about it. On a…

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