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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. no they don't by PeteyG · · Score: 2, Funny

    GOD creates weather

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    1. Re:no they don't by brokencomputer · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think you mean seperation of church and CITY.

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  2. Uh. Yeah. by moosesocks · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm pretty sure that most people who work in a large city and live in the suburbs could tell you this.

    Hell. Has it ever NOT rained in London?

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  3. okay, then by Tumbleweed · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is kinda like the Slashdot Effect, only with weather: Too much heat, and something falls down. :)

  4. Try Dallas by BoomerSooner · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's 8 degrees (F) warmer on average than Austin which is 3 hours to the south. "Dallas, a great place if you hate trees!" , the Dallas moto (well that and "Your hair can never be too big, and there is no such thing as too much make-up or plastic surgery")

    1. Re:Try Dallas by Pieroxy · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Don't you think that would be because Austin is closer to the sea? Hmmm?

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  5. I've always suspected.. by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... that Portland was like this. This is not through scientific experimentation or anything, it's because it just felt like Portland was always raining when other places weren't. I can't believe meteorologists would just now be looking into that.

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  6. Brain disrupting Earth equillibrium by AtariAmarok · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Before each night is done
    Their plan will be unfurled
    By the dawning of the sun
    They'll take over the world.

    They're Pinky and The Brain
    Yes, Pinky and The Brain
    Their twilight campaign
    Is easy to explain.
    To prove their mousey worth
    They'll overthrow the Earth"

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

    /joeyo

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  9. 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

  10. 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.