“We learned the hottest urban heat island areas, in the deep red on the map, are often the most population dense and are as much as 11.1 degrees warmer than neighboring areas on a sweltering summer day.”

Curtis said the findings of the project should be ready around the end of September.

Scott Curtis, the director of the Near Center for Climate Studies at The Citadel, says storms will dump more water on Charleston in the future.

Photo above: National news correspondent Maya Rodriguez listens to Citadel professor Dr. Scott Curtis discuss the Near Center for Climate Studies new weather station on campus in May 2021. The

Over at The Citadel, a military college in Charleston, Lt. Col. Scott Curtis monitors data from this outdoor weather station every day.

Three members of The Citadel community participated in a Charleston-area academic panel to celebrate Earth Day.

Discussing the need for resilience and sustainability due to rapid human-induced climate change.

“…nationally heat causes more deaths than flooding. People are not ordered to “evacuate” from a heat wave.”

Near Center for Climate Studies is now being guided by a distinguished group of advisors.