The sun looks small in the afternoon,but why the temperature in the afternoon are more hot than morning...as we all know about that the sun looks bigger in the morning..
2006-09-23 00:19:57 · 10 answers · asked by Joe - 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
The temperature is hotter in the afternoon because the sun is at its peak. It is fully shinning down upon the earth. In the morning, the full glare of the sun is not on the earth, its only at an angle. That's the same reason the sun looks bigger. That and its cooler in the morning, because it still has the coolness from the night, but by afternoon the sun has warmed up the cool night air.
2006-09-23 00:24:17 · answer #1 · answered by Jessica 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The angle of the sun is more direct when the sun is directly overhead. In morning and evening the angle is further away from 90 degrees and so less heat is delivered to the earth. Also, Just like an oven; it takes time to warm up after the heat is turned to high. When the sun is directly overhead, the heat has been turned to high. By about 2PM the earth is at its hottest time of the day.
During the day, the variation in intensity (with the peak at noon) is caused by the changing angle of the sun. There are two reasons for this. First, and most important, the lower the sun, the smaller the amount of radiation intercepted by a horizontal surface. (The earth is not completely flat, but over most areas it averages out to being nearly horizontal.) Second, the lower the sun, the greater the amount of air the sunlight has to pass through, and the more gets scattered by air molecules, by haze, and even by clouds.
2006-09-23 03:02:38 · answer #2 · answered by Pey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At around 2 pm GMT the earth recieves maximun insulation.....or it absorbs maximun insulation,and afterward it emits it. Also the sun's rays are vertical in the afternoon.So it's more hotter than in the afternoons.
2006-09-23 00:25:03 · answer #3 · answered by Mol 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun is right above the earth.
2006-09-23 06:09:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
.Because in the morning it receives slanting rays of the sun, but
in the afternoon it receives direct sun rays.
2006-09-23 00:33:00 · answer #5 · answered by jhalak s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the higher in the sky the sun is the smaller it looks. when the sun is at it's highest point in the sky it's the hottest.
2006-09-23 00:24:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the sun has just started to worm up
2006-09-23 03:10:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is because the sun is DIRECTLY OVERHEAD at this time and the land breeze occurs thats why it HOT...yum..
2006-09-23 06:36:32 · answer #8 · answered by Artie O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Move the igloo.
2006-09-23 00:24:44 · answer #9 · answered by L S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who said this?you think so...............
i dont know
maybe
2006-09-23 00:27:54 · answer #10 · answered by cati m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋