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Hot days in the city? It’s all about location

October 15, 2018

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This satellite image of Baltimore shows the dramatic contrast between large areas of vegetation to the more densely developed neighborhoods at the city’s core. The NOAA-funded Heat Island research quantified strikingly different temperatures from block to block on one of the hottest days of summer 2018.

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