Climate Change Activists Search For 'Hotspots' In The Dotte On August Afternoon

Here's a quick peek at local tech surveillance which hopes to monitor Summer heat amid in the urban core during Summer . . . Good luck with "the science" and other adventures . . .

160 volunteers from all over the metro were sent out on Saturday for “Spot the Hot,” a community-led data gathering project where volunteers identify and report the hottest parts of their neighborhoods.

Each volunteer group was assigned one of 31 different routes in either Wyandotte or Johnson county. They were given sensors to install in their cars, which gather the data as they drive through different parts of the neighborhood.

“So it’s all GPS located, which means we’re collecting a data point about every second of temperature and relative humidity,” said Johnson County’s epidemiologist, Jackson Ward. “We will collect those data points, we’ll get the maps and then it’s really our goal to work with the community and a lot of our local cities that are trying to do climate resilience planning."

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Volunteers hit the streets to identify 'Urban Heat Islands' in JoCo, Wyandotte County

160 volunteers were sent out on Saturday for "Spot the Hot," a federal community-led data gathering project where volunteers identify and report the hottest parts of their neighborhoods.