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Cities Create Weather

Posted by michael on from the hawking-umbrellas dept.

NightEyes Decorum writes "Time is running a short piece on some research being conducted by meteorologists. While it's been known for a while that cities trap heat, research into the effect of this extra heat is only now just being studied. Apparently, some cities trap enough heat to actually create rainfall."

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  1. Must be another slow news day... :) by JCMay · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is not a new phenomena, I don't think. I can remember many times growing up near Atlanta when there'd be awful weather coming and all the TV reporters were telling us to hide in the basement, only to find that the line of storms divided and went around town.

    It's been my observation that no significant weather happens in Midtown, and little happens anywhere in the metro area. Except smog