Not exact matches
At two o'clock in the
afternoon, the South Texas
summer sun is, not surprisingly, a blazingly hot 95
degrees.
For example, a white roof that reflects 80 percent of the sun's light on a typical
summer afternoon will stay about 31
degrees C cooler than a gray roof that reflects only 20 percent.
One
afternoon last
summer, Pat Mulroy stood in 106 -
degree heat at the broad concrete banister atop the Hoover Dam, the wall that holds back the mighty Colorado River, and with it the nation's largest reserve of water.
Being that I am in Florida, we don't really have a real Fall it is more like a second
summer, 90
degrees, palm trees that stay green and
afternoon rainstorms so, we fake it!
Summers have cooled over most of the US during the past century, but in Missouri
summer afternoon temperatures have dropped about 10
degrees since the 1930's.