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The study also suggests that locally, high temperature coincides with the presence of slums, indicating that places with slums are exposed to excessive heat compared to their surroundings. Data collection of the study is of high temperature or extremely high temperature of May month," said Jiong Wang, one of the researchers. Commercial, industrial and mixed-use lands also tend to contribute to locally high LST. "The study was conducted for four months, gathering satellite data and morphology-based local scale thermal patterns, which suggest slums are exposed to locally high temperatures and larger slums tend to be exposed to more intense locally high temperature. People who live in slums are facing a double whammy this summer due to the local high temperatures..