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CrowdScience: Why Does It Always Rain on Me?

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Why Does It Always Rain on Me?

09/06/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Why Does It Always Rain on Me?

How do microclimates affect our weather and our lives?

The impact of microclimates on our lives, finds out how more rain can help an English tea plantation and discovers the deadly effect of the urban heat island

Listener Ros Allen wondered why it always seems to rain on her village but not the one a mile away. It’s all down to microclimates. CrowdScience explores the impact of microclimates on our lives, discovers how more rain can help an English tea plantation and reveals the deadly effect of the urban heat island. Marnie Chesterton also talks to a local project in New York City, the Cool Roofs Program, that aims to reduce the urban heat effect, helping to mitigate the impacts of climate change. But just how much of a difference can measures like this really make?

Do you have a question we can turn into a programme? Email us at crowdscience@bbc.co.uk

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton
Producer: Marijke Peters

(Image: Women standing on the edge of a forest with an umbrella. Credit: Getty Images)

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