3 thoughts on “ANU studies Canberra street trees no mention UHI”
It is not just UHI. The trees are affected by the wavelengths and intensities of street lights in their vicinity.
I have planted and/or grown thousands of street trees for all of the Kimberley and Pilbara towns, which are ‘suffering’ a bit this year. Not from the heat, but the cold. This August in Broome so far is the equal coldest on record at the airport at 10.8C, only beaten by a Post Office record in 1896. All across the Kimberley, the cold is on, but I have yet to check Pilbara records.
Bring the heat back please.
This is almost 8C colder than August 1973 of 19.6C.
It is not just UHI. The trees are affected by the wavelengths and intensities of street lights in their vicinity.
I have planted and/or grown thousands of street trees for all of the Kimberley and Pilbara towns, which are ‘suffering’ a bit this year. Not from the heat, but the cold. This August in Broome so far is the equal coldest on record at the airport at 10.8C, only beaten by a Post Office record in 1896. All across the Kimberley, the cold is on, but I have yet to check Pilbara records.
Bring the heat back please.
This is almost 8C colder than August 1973 of 19.6C.
Thanks for the headsup Tom – will look at it all again after months end. This chart shows your minimums sure tracking in possible record zone.
www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_display_type=dataGraph&p_stn_num=003003&p_nccObsCode=38&p_month=08
And of course the BoM Outlook for August published late July showed Broome having hotter than average nights.