I think it is based off of the angle the light is travelling through the atmosphere. Since it is coming through the atmosphere at an angle at morning and afternoon, there is a lot more atmosphere to go through, dispersing the heat.
Seems you're the only one thinking through it in here. Kudos.
There's definitely something to light at an angle being less direct, thus giving off less energy. I'm not sure the atmosphere takes that much energy away, although I am perplexed how heat from the sun makes it through cold frozen space. Maybe I'm thinking too hard.
Another question I had regarding thermal activity is why the hottest day of the year isn't the summer solstice, and the coldest day of the year the winter solstice? Typically, the hottest day is sever months later, in August, when the sun is quite a bit further away from the earth.
The official reason is because the oceans have spent months heating up and it takes time for everything to cool down again. This would make sense, if you didn't have some days that were suddenly 30 degrees cooler than the day before. While my meteorological knowledge is next to nothing, it seems like the hottest day shouldn't appear up to 2 months after the suns closest approach when the temperatures can vary so much from one day to the next.
I think it is based off of the angle the light is travelling through the atmosphere. Since it is coming through the atmosphere at an angle at morning and afternoon, there is a lot more atmosphere to go through, dispersing the heat.
Seems you're the only one thinking through it in here. Kudos.
There's definitely something to light at an angle being less direct, thus giving off less energy. I'm not sure the atmosphere takes that much energy away, although I am perplexed how heat from the sun makes it through cold frozen space. Maybe I'm thinking too hard.
Another question I had regarding thermal activity is why the hottest day of the year isn't the summer solstice, and the coldest day of the year the winter solstice? Typically, the hottest day is sever months later, in August, when the sun is quite a bit further away from the earth.
The official reason is because the oceans have spent months heating up and it takes time for everything to cool down again. This would make sense, if you didn't have some days that were suddenly 30 degrees cooler than the day before. While my meteorological knowledge is next to nothing, it seems like the hottest day shouldn't appear up to 2 months after the suns closest approach when the temperatures can vary so much from one day to the next.