{"id":25102,"date":"2025-06-29T18:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T18:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/25102\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T18:07:08","slug":"suffering-by-degrees-we-measured-the-urban-heat-island-effect-in-downtown-springfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/25102\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffering by degrees: We measured the \u2018urban heat island\u2019 effect in downtown Springfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The junction of Main Street and Boland Way in Springfield, June 24, 2025. (Douglas Hook \/ The Republican)\u00a0Douglas Hook<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6X3EZE72XBDCBGNGJTJFDPALLI\">SPRINGFIELD \u2014 Amid blistering triple-digit temperatures Tuesday, Kenefick Park in the city\u2019s North End was full of people trying to stay cool. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KUGMDOSQ65AZDDE7DOU2QRPHUY\">Anita Rios watched as her two kids played in the splash pad\u2019s sprinklers. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/pf\/resources\/images\/masslive\/long-form\/logo.svg?d=1595\" alt=\"masslive.com's Logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The junction of Main Street and Boland Way in Springfield, June 24, 2025. (Douglas Hook \/ The Republican)\u00a0Douglas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[746,159,22482,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-25102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-the-republican","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114767989550554509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}