Tag Archives: Urban Heat Island

Presenting City Climate Corner: Hopkins Urban Heat Island

Ian R Buck • August 1, 2023

Though Hopkins is one of the smaller Minneapolis suburbs, they have two really innovative programs to reduce the urban heat island effect.

National Links: Autonomous Buses and Sim City Planners

Jeff Wood • March 8, 2019

Every day at The Overhead Wire we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list. At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the DC region. […]

The distribution of temperatures across the Twin Cities urban heat island averaged over nighttime and daytime, by season.

Map Monday: The Twin Cities’ Urban Heat Island

Eric Anondson • January 18, 2016

With this cold snap bringing temps into –15º territory, I was reminded that a few weeks back I posted Minnesota’s Carbon Donut, a map showing which parts of the state of Minnesota have households contributing a larger carbon footprint. With current temps it is probably worth a map on the urban heat island of the Twin Cities. In September, 2015, The Journal of Applied […]