Generally, it’s a few degrees warmer in traffic. Cars are hot. Asphalt is hot. Depending on the sensor location, a vehicle thermometer might read 3-5° high on a hot day, particularly at idle.
Sitting at Madison Boulevard and Sullivan St. on the way home today, I glanced up and thought of Saintseester’s photo, and then I thought “hey, I can snap that with my phone”:
It read 111° right after this, but we were moving by then.
Even with a reasonable corrective traffic factor applied, that’s pretty damned hot.
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“But it’s a DRY heat!!”
In the words of Jeff Dunham’s puppet, Walter, “yeah, well, so’s a frickin’ bonfire, but you don’t see me stickin’ my ass in one, now, do ya?”
It’s cooled off considerably here – I think our max temp today was 86 degrees, and the forecast calls for thunderstorms tonight which will leave us with 79 degrees tomorrow.