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what's up sunshine happy Friday Eve it's
Thursday August 31st a great day to be
brave to be better to believe and most
importantly be you to full I'm Coy wire
this is CNN 10 and we start with the
latest on Hurricane idalia the powerful
storm made landfall in Florida yesterday
with heavy rain and Winds of 110 miles
per hour it's the strongest hurricane in
at least 125 years to hit Florida's Big
Bend region of the Gulf Coast this was
the state's third hurricane in the past
12 months right before it made landfall
idalia experienced what's called an
extreme rapid intensification that's
when winds increase by more than 35
miles per hour within a 24-hour span
scientists say that's becoming more and
more common due to warm water
temperatures idalia jumped from a
category 1 to a category 4 the second
highest rating on the sapphire Simpson
hurricane wind scale it then dropped
back to a category 3 before hitting land
it pushed water onto Shore in a
record-setting storm surge it also cut
off power to hundreds of thousands of
people and check this out Pilots caught
this rare footage while evacuating an
air base ahead of the storm that's not
lightning it's an uncommon weather event
an electrical phenomenon known as Saint
Elmo's Fire after the fast-moving storm
passed through the recovery and cleanup
effort began right away
we are in Pinellas County just on the
other side of Tampa Bay uh where there
uh there's still some flooding concerns
for a part of the city uh the mayor
tells me that they're still waiting for
some of this water to recede so that
officials get a better a clearer picture
of the kind of damage that they're
dealing with here uh Jerry if you can
show them just up the street from where
we are here along the coastline you can
see uh one emergency crew is out here on
a pickup truck they've been driving up
and down a little bit further up the
street out here we're told some streets
up there
um are pretty blocked off cars really
can't get in and out of that area we are
in Gulfport again a part of Pinellas
County where we expect that a lot of
this storm surge to take hold it's what
it was the one thing really that
emergency officials across the Tampa Bay
area and Pinellas County were really
worried about they didn't want folks to
be out here doing exactly what they're
doing at least earlier in the day
because we still were going to have all
of this water coming in off off the
coastline out here we've had a little
bit of rain although much of that has
since cleared and so officials really
were just telling folks really stay home
stay away from this part of town because
we're still dealing with some
significant flooding the mayor tells me
that a lot of the damage again does seem
to have been more storm surge related
than anything else 10 second trivia
leonids perseids and quandratives are
all names of what constellations animal
orders meteor showers or fields of
mathematics
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me with a show of hands if you said
meteor showers and these types occur in
different parts of the year
this Fireball lit up the Colorado night
sky as it traveled over the Western U.S
sightings were also reported in Nebraska
New Mexico Utah and Wyoming
NASA meteor watched field of reports of
loud booms and shaking in the area
caused by shock waves as the meteor
disintegrated
they estimate the fireball hurdle
through the sky at approximately 41 000
miles per hour traveling 48 miles in
four seconds before it crumbled above
the Keystone Forest
you get questions here all the time
about comets asteroids and meteors
meteorites what's the difference well
let's start in space and work our way
all the way down to the surface
a comet is a snowball
it's a piece of ice now the ice is
mainly Frozen gas not water but there
could be dust and rocks and things
inside the comet Hayley's Comet now NASA
knows of about 3 600 other comets than
that one out there closer in in the
asteroid belt these are rocks not gas
they could be metal as well but they are
hard surfaces and sometimes they come
out of the asteroid belt get closer to
the surface of the Earth or at least our
atmosphere if one or a piece of a
smaller one called a meteoroid hits the
surface of the atmosphere it turns into
a meteor it gets bright because it hits
our atmosphere and begins to burn up if
it doesn't make its way all the way down
to the surface it turns into a shooting
star now if it does make its way all the
way down to the surface of the Earth and
hits the ground and you can pick it up
that is a meteorite have you ever heard
of urban Heat Islands if you live in a
big city you know how hot it can get in
the summer especially with all that heat
radiating up off the concrete and
asphalt that's called the urban heat
island effect and it was first
documented way back in the 1800s by a
meteorologist in London today we have
tools that can help us identify and map
these islands which can be 18 degrees
hotter than the areas around them and
that's important so these hot spots can
be cooled down and that's exactly what
the architects in our next story are
trying to do
in one study of the city had
temperatures over 150 160 degrees
we're cooking vast swaths of our city
well done every single day why are we
accepting so little why are the people
here
tolerating this our cities are hot by
Design but they don't have to be that
way Architects Keenan Gibbons and
Salvador Lindquist are uncovering
exactly how we're cooking our cities
using specialized tools like this drone
I snap pictures in parallel so I get a
standard photo and then you get an
identical thermal one at the exact same
time
and it's opened up a whole world that
just didn't exist previously
our cities are hotter than surrounding
rural areas sometimes 15 to 20 degrees
hotter in extreme cases heat is
Amplified due to the different types of
materials that you would commonly find
in the city asphalt concrete of
reflective Building Services this is the
urban heat island effect
governments and organizations use
satellites to measure heat Distribution
on a regional scale the problem with
that is that satellites can only
understand Heat at a 30 meter by 30
meter resolution we're trying to find
ways to understand the really highly
localized impacts of Heat and the Drone
gets you right in there I mean you'd
know that pavement was hot but how hot
the Drone moves in an automated
pre-calculated path it's similar to if
you're a hockey fan like a Zamboni
machine and takes tons of photos of a
streetscape about 2400 2200 photos
allowing for 3D modeling in thermal
comparison
shows this area because it captures an
intersection in any City USA and so this
is the urban heat island material
palette
the air temperature on this day was 84
degrees Fahrenheit shaded concrete was
89 exposed concrete 110 degrees
Fahrenheit so we're jumping 20 degrees
it's a full 30 degrees difference from
the surface of the parking lot to the
shade immediately behind me
but black by two men rooftops are
measuring upwards of 160 degrees
Fahrenheit beef is considered cooked
well done at 160 degrees
heat is the leading cause of natural
disaster related deaths in the United
States and likely the world
we can build a model from this detailed
map and then provide appropriate
treatment options you know going forward
Keenan himself hope other architecture
firms companies and even cities use this
toolkit in the future who can then fight
the urban heat island effect with vast
tree coverage lighter pavement and white
or even green roofs
some cities have trouble mowing grass
and hard to reach places but America's
goat Talent have no fear your
eco-friendly grazers are here the city
of Chicago goaded these goats after they
spent two weeks filling up on gasoline
clearing Seven Acres of hard to reach
vegetation around power lines the cities
celebrated by giving them a driving tour
around Chicago these munching mowers are
the greatest of all time helping to
prevent outages caused by overgrown
power lines since 2019 not bad not bad
at all and some of the other greatest of
all time the students and teachers at
Lewis and Clark Middle School in
Meridian Idaho you get the shout out
today make the most of your moments
today an ancient philosopher once said
we all have two lives the second begins
though when we realize we have just one
I'm Coy wire and I'll see you tomorrow
thank you
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