How Cool Is It in the "Old Forest" Right Now?
The folks over at the Citizens to Preserve Overton Park website did a little experiment a few days back. They compared temperatures at four different spots within a mile radius in Midtown.
by John Branston
From the blog: "I measured a 13 degree difference as I traveled from parking lots and clearcuts to urban shade and sunlit greeenswards and finally to the rich shade of the Old Forest. All within a 1 mile radius of each other.
"Since the Old Forest is Memphis' natural state -- what we approach when we let up on the chainsaw and lawnmower -- the 87 isn't special, it's normal. We complain about the heat in Memphis, but a good chunk comes from the artificial climate we've created with bulldozers, which we then have to over-correct with the artificial climate of air-conditioning ..."
Read it all at CPOP's website.
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Its hotter in a parking lot than in a forest? Stop the freakin presses.
wow....that explains why I'm hot standing on a soggy asphalt parking lot in August...but not when I'm under the shade of a big ole tree. Can I park my car in the forrest from now on?
Was the study conducted using stimulus funds?
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