Sophia Schmidt
Environmental Justice Reporter at WHYY-TV (Philadelphia, PA)
Environmental justice reporter @WHYYNews @PlanPhilly. 2021 @MetcalfURI fellow. Previously @NPRWeekend & @DelawarePublic. 🏳️🌈 she/her
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1 week ago |
phillytrib.com | Sophia Schmidt
After a period of cool, dreary weather in the Philadelphia area, temperatures are expected to soar in the coming days. The city was under a heat advisory Thursday, and the heat index is forecast to climb even higher starting Sunday into early next week. “Monday, Tuesday, even into Wednesday … are going to be pretty oppressive days,” said Pennsylvania State Climatologist Kyle Imhoff.
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2 weeks ago |
whyy.org | Sophia Schmidt
Climate change shapes where and how we live. That’s why NPR is dedicating a week to stories about solutions for building and living on a hotter planet. When Superstorm Sandy slammed into the Jersey Shore in 2012, it damaged houses up and down the coast. But not Amanda Devecka-Rinear’s home. The small wooden house survived untouched. It happened to be lifted on pilings for construction work, so it stayed above the floodwaters.
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2 weeks ago |
phillytrib.com | Sophia Schmidt
Temperatures in Philadelphia are expected to top 90 degrees on Thursday for the first time this season. Forecasters say to expect a hot summer. “It’s been warm the last couple years for sure,” said Mike Lee, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service forecast office in Mount Holly, New Jersey. “It’ll stay fairly warm.”The National Weather Service predicts that southeastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and South Jersey will experience a warmer and wetter summer than normal.
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2 weeks ago |
kpbs.org | Sophia Schmidt
Climate change shapes where and how we live. That's why NPR is dedicating a week to stories about solutions for building and living on a hotter planet. When Superstorm Sandy slammed into the Jersey Shore in 2012, it damaged houses up and down the coast. But not Amanda Devecka-Rinear's home. The small wooden house survived untouched. It happened to be lifted on pilings for construction work, so it stayed above the floodwaters.
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3 weeks ago |
phillytrib.com | Sophia Schmidt
People in the Philadelphia area who are sensitive to poor air quality should take precautions on Wednesday as smoke from wildfires burning in Canada will help raise levels of ozone over the region. Wednesday will be a Code Orange day for ozone in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties, according to Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection.
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