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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. Some of us already knew that by Captain+Pedantic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Because we were reading when they previous covered this story.

    Ok, so in the last three years this has gone from maybe to they do, but still, could you try to keep down the dupes?

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  2. Hotlanta by MacJedi · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Atlanta's Urban Heat Alters Weather Patterns

    /joeyo

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  3. Yeah, it's called "San Francisco". by MightyTribble · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Honestly, you'll be in Oakland in clear blue skys, and you look across the bay and there's this big-ass black raincloud squatting over San Francisco.

    The place looks like Mordor some times, especially with that red blinkenlight on top of the pyramid tower thingy.