Why is that? Is it due to enclosed space, i.e. in a car? But why when your outside, when it reflects from a building into your face feel like its 1000 times hotter?
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Is is not reflected vs nonreflectded sunlight but if warm air that is lighter escape or not.
So the sun gets warmer because the light gets in and heat up the car and the air. The air can’t escape so it gets warmer. Open the windows and the air have a simpler time to escape and it is cooler.
It is also that you are surrounded by the hot part of the car that emits IR light that heat you up. On an open area, it might just be the ground below you you are colder.
I can’t answer to the enclosed space but for the building example, you’re feeling the ambient heat that you’d normally feel *plus* whatever is reflected off the building. If you step away from the building you aren’t absorbing the reflected radiation anymore so you just feel the ambient heat again
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