Why is it the coldest temperature right as the sun is coming up as opposed to 12- 3 am when its the darkest?
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Imagine you put a glass of water into the fridge for 1 hour, and then take it out. When is it the coldest? It’s not in the middle of the hour, it’s right before you take it out of the fridge.
So, the temperature is the coldest just when the sun is about to heat up the place.
While you might think the coldest time of the day is before the sun rises, it’s actually about 30 minutes after that happens. That’s because the radiation from the sun isn’t yet strong enough to exceed the amount of heat being radiated by the earth.
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