Dang, switch off the AC, turn on the heat.

[SteveSS]

I just took the trash cans out to the curb, it's chilly. I think it's 57 at 9 pm. Supposed to get into the 40's at night this week. The Summer Solstice is still a couple of days away. June 21st.

It used to bug me as a geologist why temperatures continue to get hotter after the Summer Solstice and colder after the Winter Solstice around December 20th. It's the oceans. Their temperatures are slow to react to the tilting of the Earth's axis.

 

[idrivemopar]

Actually its the entire planet that does this, and continues to gain more heat then it releases as we approach and then go past the summer solstice. Same thing in winter, where we lose more heat than we gain so its colder after the winter solstice. You can see this on a daily basis on those days where the weather doesn't impact the temperature and you have a nice sunny day, it is hottest in the mid afternoon rather than when the sun is at its highest point because of the same principal, more heat is being absorbed than is being radiated so the temperature climbs into the mid afternoon.

 

[rlem1977]

It used to bug me as a geologist why temperatures continue to get hotter after the Summer Solstice and colder after the Winter Solstice around December 20th. It's the oceans. Their temperatures are slow to react to the tilting of the Earth's axis.

What axis? LOL