cooling center

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cooling center (plural cooling centers)

An emergency shelter that operates when temperatures become dangerously high, serving stranded travelers, displaced renters and homeowners, and the homeless.
- 2010 July 9, Ariel Kaminer, “Cool Air, if You Can Get to It”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  The Peter Cardella Center is part of the network of 500 or so public facilities that the city activates as “cooling centers” when the heat index creeps up to 95 for two days in a row, or to 100 for any duration at all.
- 2020 May 6, Christopher Flavelle, “Coronavirus Makes Cooling Centers Risky, Just as Scorching Weather Hits”, in New York Times‎^[2]:
  Others are considering handing out free air-conditioners to people whose homes lack them. And in Austin, Texas, officials may soon be dispatching fleets of air-conditioned city buses to serve as cooling centers in neighborhoods where the need for relief is greatest.