Can objects get colder than the ambient temperature around them?

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Say you store a vehicle outside all winter, if there was an usually cold week, say -20 degrees Fahrenheit for example, is it possible for the car to be colder than the -20 since it sat weeks prior to the -20 temps?

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Assuming you are talking about just sitting there without using refrigerants..
For a five year old .. generally no..

There’s no such thing as cold actually, there’s only the absence of heat..
So conceptually the heat has to go somewhere else to get something cool.. you cant add cold to something, you can only take heat away.

If that makes sense then the car will be about same temp as surroundings because temperatures try and normalize.. the heat likes to spread itself around and even out ..

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