Future Cities: 20 cities toward 2050 in 3D

Choose one of 20 cities and slide from the 1991–2020 model baseline toward the 2020–2049 average. Heat haze, sky colour, ground and rain cues scale with the projected change in mean temperature, annual rainfall and days above 30°C, read from Open-Meteo's HighResMIP climate models.

Projections are model output under one high-emissions scenario, not tested trends. Buildings are as mapped in OpenStreetMap (some without a recorded height), grid cells are tens of kilometres across, sea level is not modeled, and nothing here forecasts any particular street.

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