{"id":4534,"date":"2015-09-28T15:31:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T19:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=4534"},"modified":"2015-09-28T15:31:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T19:31:01","slug":"why-are-cities-warmer-than-rural-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/09\/why-are-cities-warmer-than-rural-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are cities warmer than rural areas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you live near a city, you may have noticed that cities are often warmer than the surrounding countryside, especially on calm, clear nights.\u00a0 Even in a city like Athens, with a little over 100,000 people, we can see as much as a ten degree difference between downtown and the fields outside the city.\u00a0 Smaller cities can also have an effect, albeit smaller.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA posted a blog entry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2015\/09\/25\/the-science-of-why-cities-are-warmer-than-rural-areas\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> on Forbes.com which explains this and also shows that for some cities, the extra trees and irrigation of yards can actually cause a cooling effect, particularly in desert areas like Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/urban-heat.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4535\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/urban-heat-300x202.png\" alt=\"urban heat\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/urban-heat-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/urban-heat.png 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/urban-heat-205x138.png 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live near a city, you may have noticed that cities are often warmer than the surrounding countryside, especially on calm, clear nights.\u00a0 Even in a city like Athens, with a little over 100,000 people, we can see as much as a ten degree difference between downtown and the fields outside the city.\u00a0 Smaller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":4535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534","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=4534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4536,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions\/4536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}