{"id":25706,"date":"2023-04-30T23:23:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T03:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=25706"},"modified":"2023-04-30T23:23:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T03:23:43","slug":"moisture-increases-heat-risk-in-urban-climates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2023\/04\/moisture-increases-heat-risk-in-urban-climates\/","title":{"rendered":"Moisture increases heat risk in urban climates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Urban Heat Island of cities is well-known and is attributed to the high percentage of pavement and lack of trees. However, a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/987515\" target=\"_blank\">new study by experts at the Yale School<\/a>\u00a0examined the urban heat effect and how it is affected by humidity. The study determined that some efforts to reduce the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/heat-wave\" target=\"_blank\">heat<\/a>, either through trees or vegetation, were essentially erased due to the air\u2019s moisture causing feel-like temperatures to soar. So adding trees increases shade and cooling due to evaporation, but the humidity the trees put into the atmosphere negate some of the cooling effect. This appears to be especially true in the humid South, where humidity is already high to begin with. You can read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/not-heat-humidity-moisture-increases-221354971.html\">https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/not-heat-humidity-moisture-increases-221354971.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/Glass_of_water_8467149239.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/Glass_of_water_8467149239.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/Glass_of_water_8467149239.jpg 320w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/Glass_of_water_8467149239-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/Glass_of_water_8467149239-184x138.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: James Petts, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Urban Heat Island of cities is well-known and is attributed to the high percentage of pavement and lack of trees. However, a\u00a0new study by experts at the Yale School\u00a0examined the urban heat effect and how it is affected by humidity. The study determined that some efforts to reduce the\u00a0heat, either through trees or vegetation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":3875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25707,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25706\/revisions\/25707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}