Why are the warmest/coldest days not near the solstice but rather a few weeks after the date?

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Technically, on the solstice the sun is warming up the hemisphere for the longest/shortest time…

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Why isn’t your oven the hottest the second it ignites in big woosh? It takes time for heat to build… it’s not that one day has more sunlight, it’s that you’ve had many long days to warm the ground so that the heat build and gets retained.

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