Just something that interested me. I live in an area that dropped from the 60s to the 40s in one night, and, two weeks later, rose back into the 60s, again, literally overnight. How does this happen?
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It might be a better question to ask how temperatures manage to stay *stable* enough from day to night to day again. Temperature can range from -459 degrees Fahrenheit at absolute zero to 28,800,000 degrees Fahrenheit at the center of the Sun. When you think about it that way, a difference of 20 degrees Fahrenheit isn’t anything at all. You can see a swing of maybe 100 degrees between day and night in the desert regions of Earth, and much more than that on other planets in our solar system.
It is such a small range of temperature that we consider to be habitable, let alone comfortable, and it’s amazing that our climate can keep it that way, thanks to our atmosphere and ocean currents.
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