Today is a warm 88 degrees in the suburbs of New Jersey with the heat island effect expected to reach close to 100 degrees in NYC. It is a large temperature swing that could have life threatening complications! The human body has a narrow temperature range for tolerating heat.
This article speaks about different solutions cities can implement to help reduce the ever-rising temperatures across the globe. What I like about the article is that it looks at the concept of measuring temperature across a city at a micro level, as temperatures can vary by 20 degrees from one building to the other or one block to the next. This temperature swing can depend on building materials and strategies implemented to reduce the absorption of the sun’s short waves on the built environment.
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