A team of scientists and volunteers is trying to learn more about where the hottest parts of Salt Lake City are. On Saturday, volunteers drove around to collect some of that data.
SALT LAKE CITY — With hot summer temperatures across the state of Utah and the world, a team of scientists and volunteers is trying to learn more about where the hottest parts of Salt Lake City are. On Saturday, volunteers drove around to collect some of that data.
The volunteers picked up a probe, put it on their car, and were assigned a specific route to drive through. “It allows cities to map the distribution of heat on a hot day in the summer,” said Robert Wilson, a science teacher at Rowland Hall and program coordinator for the NOAA heat watch program in Salt Lake City, with the Utah Climate Center.“So we’ll be able to compare those routes to each other because they are sampled at the same time of day, and then we’ll be able to compare how the temperatures change throughout the day because we’re doing the same routes at different times,” explained Wilson.
“We thought this is really going to help and we would learn something from it, which we have. This has been a very eye-opening experience, so we’re glad that we stepped up,” Knoles said.
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