it comes in hot because it’s low lying, swampy, industrialized land that is covered in cement and machinery, as far as I could see.
It was shit hole land that nobody wanted. That’s why an airport was made there 70 years ago.
if you had a kid, and they tried to set up a hot wheels, micro machine, matchbox, Thomas the train set up on a fixed size table, and every piece of that playset was put out: tanks, highways, bridges, tunnels, Seaport, airport, train lines, buildings, factories, stores, radio towers and an old church or two, that is what EWR looks like on short final approach.
That’s why it’s always hotter than everywhere else. There’s not a blade of grass or a tree or an open space or a hill for miles in any direction.