A new study determined that some efforts to reduce the heat, either through trees or vegetation, were essentially erased due to the air’s moisture causing feel-like temperatures to soar.
These are the three types of heat alerts issued by the National Weather Service.
"In dry, temperate, and boreal climates, urban residents are actually less heat-stressed than rural residents. But in the humid Global South, the urban heat island is dominant over the urban dry island, resulting in two to six extra dangerous heat stress days per summer," Lee stated.
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