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This is how much hotter urban sprawl makes US cities feel
Why your block might feel hotter than others.
Nearly 34 million people across 65 US cities — roughly one in 10 Americans — live in a place where the built environment makes temperatures feel at least 8 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than it would without that urban sprawl. That allowed them to calculate an urban heat island (UHI) index for each block group, a measure of how much hotter these areas are because of what the built environment looks like. NYC’s main weather observation station happens to be located in Central Park, where tree cover and greenery can have a cooling effect in comparison.
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