Tuesday, 3/15, 6 pm: MyRWA Heat Mapping Study Webinar

[Ken Krause]

How hot is it in certain parts of the Mystic River watershed in Medford, and what can be done to cool things down? Find out Tuesday evening, March 15, at 6 p.m. when the Mystic River Watershed Association shares the findings of its 2021 Wicked Hot Mystic volunteer heat mapping campaign at a public webinar.

Want to hear more about this volunteer science effort and learn about the hotspots MyRWA identified in the Mystic? Curious about what’s next for the Wicked Hot Mystic data? Register for the webinar here:  https://bit.ly/WickedHotMystic

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WHAT IS WICKED HOT MYSTIC?
Surprisingly, extreme heat, sometimes known as the “silent storm of extreme weather” causes more deaths in the US than all other weather hazards combined (source). Some neighborhoods and entire municipalities in the greater Boston area are hotter than others because of the Urban Heat Island effect. Due to the legacy of historical racist policies, such as redlining, these neighborhoods are overwhelmingly low income communities of color and disproportionately suffer from extreme heat and poor air quality.

To help communities identify and prioritize dangerously hot neighborhoods, the Museum of Science, Boston (MOS), Mystic River Watershed Association (MyRWA), Resilient Mystic Collaborative (RMC), and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) worked with volunteers to measure air temperatures, humidity, and particulate matter across the 76-square-mile Mystic River Watershed. ‘Wicked Hot Mystic’ used the data collected to create watershed-wide relative heat maps, which will help locate areas most in need of life-saving extreme heat resilience strategies.

*Live Spanish interpretation will be available.

PARTNERS

Museum of Science, Mystic River Watershed Association, Resilient Mystic Collaborative, CAPA Strategies, ISeeChange, MAPC, and GreenRoots. Thank you to the volunteers and community partners who helped to collect this data!