ENVS 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Urban Heat Island

• School: LUC
• Department: Environmental Science
• Course: ENVS 224
• Professor: Richard DiMaio

Document Summary

1 the changing angle and duration of the sun (seasons) 4 lake michigan: as best as you can, explain the urban heat island. In the 1820s and 30s, chicago used to be a prairie and then we covered everything up with concrete and asphalt. Lake michigan makes the back end of the growing season longer and warmer: what is the average high and low temperature and the number of days the temperature reaches 90 degrees or higher. The average number of days higher than 90 is 17. 8 days.