Houston’s Population Growth Could Mean An Increase In Extreme Heat
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Olga Wilhelmi is also studying extreme heat in Houston. “It presents a very interesting case for looking at how people adapt to extreme heat,” Wilhelmi said. She works for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
DAVE FEHLING | Houston PUblic Media Houston’s population growth could be making this an even hotter place to live in coming decades. That’s according to on-going research that’s using Houston as a predictor of what's called "extreme heat."
Contact Dave Fehling at dfehling@kuhf.org
Fehling, D (2015, June 08). Houston’s Population Growth Could Mean An Increase In Extreme Heat. Houston Public Media Retrieved from http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/