PREVIEW | CBC Investigates urban heat across CanadaCBC News has installed temperature and humidity sensors to test exactly how hot it gets in dozens of homes across five major cities in an unprecedented journalistic project Urban Heat. Participants are sharing how they're handling the heat — and how worried they are about staying safe.
That's why CBC teams across the country are working together to track the heat, and the impacts on people when things go from hot, to sizzling, to seriously dangerous. CBC News acquired 50 of these heat sensors that measure temperature and humidity, which were then installed in dozens of homes without air conditioning in five Canadian cities.CBC News distributed 50 sensors in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Windsor, Ont., Toronto, and Montreal.
The devices measure the temperature and humidity in people's homes every 10 minutes. Local CBC News teams then collect the data which we will use to compare indoor temperatures with outdoor temperatures in each city — like in the graph above showingOn particularly hot days, CBC News is also asking participants how the heat has been affecting them and what they've been doing to keep cool.