As record-breaking heat grips South Florida, Miami’s new heat sensors initiative is well underway, capturing how rising temperatures are experienced inside homes and neighborhoods most vulnerable to a changing climate.

The project — funded through the C40 Cool Cities Network’s Heat, Health, and Equity Challenge Fund — began recruiting residents in June, installed sensors in July, and will continue recording temperatures through October. Led by the city’s Office of Resilience and Sustainability (ORS), along with The Miami Foundation and other community-based organizations (CBOs), the effort seeks to close a long-standing “data gap.”

The devices track real-time indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity in roughly 70 households across seven “climate justice” neighborhood

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