NOAA’s Climate Program Office awards nearly $1 million to improve climate information, services for extreme heat resilience

On August 28, 2018, Washington, D.C. temperatures ranged from 85°F to 102°F. Credit: Climate.gov

NOAA’s Climate Program Office (CPO) is pleased to announce $950,000 for four new projects that will support decision making in neighborhoods grappling with inequitably distributed impacts from the deadliest weather-related risk in the United States—extreme heat.

As climate change makes heat waves more frequent and longer lasting, heat-related health impacts are rising in the United States with over 700 deaths and tens of thousands of emergency room visits each year. Much of this impact is felt in cities where roads and buildings absorb and radiate more heat than grassy, natural landscapes. And for the growing number of city dwellers, the experience of extreme heat can vary across neighborhoods by as much as 20°F.

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