DIYbanter - View Single Post - Painting roofs white can actually help lower the temperature of a city

dadiOH[_3_]

(PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per :
I say it's total BS.

I used to hang out at a beach near the yacht harbor next to the Ilikai
hotel in Waikiki.

For years and years, the parking lot was just plain old dirt - light
brown, somewhat dusty.

Then somebody got the bright idea of paving the parking lot with
blacktop.

It made a huge difference. The parking lot area and adjacent beach
went from being comfortable to being almost unbearably hot without a
strong breeze to mitigate it.

There used to be a nice breeze. Until they built the Ilikai which blocked
the trades. Ala wai Harbor was much more comfortable before the Ilikai.
For that matter, all of Honolulu was much more pleasant pre-high rise.

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dadiOH
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