Uploaded on 2017-05-22 by Harold Berdugo Zulbaran

1. Check the temperature difference in United States cities. City number 1. Cincinnatti: -Up to: 17.0 more hotter than in nearby rural areas. -Average: 0.9 city summer hotter than in rural areas. -0 days more above 90.0 F each year than rural areas. City number 2. New York: -Up to: 20.0 hotter in the city than in rural areas. -Average: 2.7 city summers are hotter than in rural areas. -1 fewer days above 90.0 each year, than rural areas. City number 3. Saint Louis: -Up to: 17.0 hotter in the city than in nearby rural areas. -Average: 4.0 city summers are hotter in rural areas. -19 more days above 90.0 F each year, than rural areas. 2. Which are the main UHI effects that you can identify in your area? The principal effect it's an increase in the temperature, the average temperature in the year was 27.8 degrees celsius but in the last years the temperature increase to 33 degrees celsius. 3. Which are the measures you would propose? More green zones, develop the use of sustainable and renewable energies, less use of gasoline in transportation by changing it by the use of fuels produced by agricultural waste. 4. Is UHI effect concerning policy making in your area? Unfortunately the political authorities haven't developed or haven't developed or haven't pay attention to the UHI effects.